Word Meanings - PEDDLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

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• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• HUCKSTERER
  A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• PEDDLER
  One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.
• RETAILMENT
  The act of retailing.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WARES
  See WARE
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• VAGABONDIZE
  To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• PEDDLERY
  1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler. 2. Trifling; trickery. "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• JAYHAWKER
  A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. Note: