I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks
I have been thirty years a collector. --Lamb.
2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages
and puts them together in one book.
Volumes without the collector's own reflections.
--Addison.
3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect
and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by
collectors, and other officers. --Sir W.
Temple.
4. One authorized to collect debts.
5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to
superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd.