Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
peddler , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
peddler .
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- noun UK Alternative spelling of
peddler .
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- noun someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
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Examples
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In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor -- this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days -- read aloud a portion from the Bible.
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“Ay,” replied mine host, laughing, “and he who meets him may meet his match — the pedlar is a tall man.”
Kenilworth 2004
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That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out of the back door, stuck his copy on the hook by stealth, and travelled only in the alleys to get his news.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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One could hardly say that he was to blame for that, either, as the photographer who paid for the item didn't say the pedlar was a woman, and the boy was no clairvoyant.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar was a great man in a labourer's ale-house; but now that I had to enact the part for an evening, I found that so it was.
An Inland Voyage 1878
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It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar was a great man in a labourer's alehouse; but now that I had to enact the part for an evening I found that so it was.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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He was the very pedlar they had made fun of and poured beer into a stocking for him to drink; but honesty and industry bring one forward, and now the pedlar was the possessor of the baronial estate.
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"Ay," replied mine host, laughing, "and he who meets him may meet his match -- the pedlar is a tall man."
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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_Dukes-couper_ I take to be a petty dealer in ducks or poultry, and to be used in a reproachful sense, as we find "pedlar," "jockey," &c.
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Can it be right to demand so much of such a young child, however great his talent appears and however wretched a life sold by his poverty-stricken mother to a pedlar who beat him he had led before?
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madmouth commented on the word pedlar
alternative spelling of peddler
April 16, 2009