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Packman   /pˈækmən/   Listen
Packman

noun
(pl. packmen)
1.
Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).  Synonyms: hawker, peddler, pedlar, pitchman.






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"Packman" Quotes from Famous Books



... aborigines, the trader was allowed to remain in the village, where he traded, unmolested, even where its warriors were singing the war song or brandishing the war club, preparatory to an invasion or massacre of the whites. Timely warning was thus often given by a returning packman to a feeble and unsuspecting settlement, of the perfidy and cruelty ...
— Daniel Boone - The Pioneer of Kentucky • John S. C. Abbott

... district. He was born at Tanimaus, in the parish of Borgue, in August 1783; he died circa 1848, unseen, like a bird. Being extremely short-sighted, he was unfitted for being a shepherd or ploughman, and began life as a packman, like the hero of "the Excursion;" and is still remembered in that region for his humor, his music, his verse, and his ginghams; and also, alas! for his misery and his sin. After travelling the country for thirty years, ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... incidents of his life that—as they put it—ought to have set honest men upon their guard. The tale went seaward on the gabbards, and landward, even to Lorn itself, upon carriers' carts and as the richest part of the packman's budget. Furthermore, a song or two was made upon the thing, that even yet old women can recall in broken stanzas, and of one of these, by far the best informed, Petullo's clerk was the ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro



Words linked to "Packman" :   cheapjack, marketer, transmigrante, seller, crier, sandboy, vendor, trafficker, vender, chapman, muffin man, pitchman



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