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packman
Part of speech:One who carries a load of articles on sale from place to place; a pedlar.
Usage examples "packman":- As the young men and boys of the Bannons worked at their looms, and the women and girls at their spinning and " flowering," when not wanted to help on the land, the father, Oiney, would occasionally go over to England as a travelling packman, and so increase the family store. - "The Life Story of an Old Rebel", John Denvir.
- Where is that damnable Scots packman? - "Salute to Adventurers", John Buchan.
- The next express, going two days later and following the beaten track, was a man who had frequently served in this capacity and knew half the Indians of the Lower Towns and Middle Settlements by name- a quick- witted pioneer, " half- trader, half- hunter, and half- packman," as he often described himself, and he had been in the country, he boasted, " ever since it was built." - "The Story of Old Fort Loudon", Charles Egbert Craddock.