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Pedlar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of peddler.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of peddler.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See peddler.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. etc. See peddler, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

pedler

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

vendor marketer vender seller trafficker

Variant

peddler

Hyponym

sandboy muffin man transmigrante crier chapman cheap-jack

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

verderer ill-humoured hawker government-in-exile strongly-built sharp-faced reeve florid-faced smooth-tongued pedler