Usually means: Attachment for creating pleats, gathers.
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  1. ruffler: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruffler: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ruffler: Wordnik
  4. ruffler: Wiktionary
  5. Ruffler, ruffler: Dictionary.com
  6. Ruffler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. ruffler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Ruffler: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. ruffler: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. ruffler: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ruffler: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ruffler: Legal dictionary

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  1. ruffler: Encyclopedia

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  1. ruffler: Idioms

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  1. ruffler: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ruffler: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ruffler)

noun:  (historical) ruffian, bully, villain; especially a 16th-17th century vagabond operating under the guise of a maimed soldier or sailor
noun:  swaggerer
noun:  a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles

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