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Definition of Packman
1. Noun. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
Specialized synonyms: Chapman, Cheapjack, Crier, Muffin Man, Sandboy, Transmigrante
Generic synonyms: Marketer, Seller, Trafficker, Vender, Vendor
Derivative terms: Hawk, Peddle
Definition of Packman
1. n. One who bears a pack; a peddler.
Definition of Packman
1. Noun. (archaic) Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Packman
1. a peddler [n PACKMEN] - See also: peddler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packman
Literary usage of Packman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"And the packman told him, he did ; but the deponent did not ask him who was
suspected for it ; nor had any other conversation on that subject, there being a ..."
2. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"And the packman told him, he did ; but the deponent did not ask him who was
suspected for it ; nor had any other conversation on that subject, there being a ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"And the packman told him, he did; but the deponent did not ask him who was
suspected for it; nor had any other conversation on that subject, there being a ..."
4. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1859)
"packman, cited 7 Ves. 176;) and for the expenses of lasting improvements; (Holt v.
Holt, 1 Ch. Ca. 190; and see Lawrence v. Maggs, and note; Mill v. ..."
5. Proceedings of the IRE. by Institute of Radio Engineers (1915)
"By ME packman In centra-distinction to the advance that has been made by the
scientific and commercial development of radio telegraph}', the operator ..."
6. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"At length there cam a chield o' game, Patie the packman ca'd by name ; A randy
lad whom nought ... Thus merrily, though by his lane, The packman reach'd the ..."
7. The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson by Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter (1983)
"CHAPTER II Weaver, packman, and Poet WILSON'S apprenticeship certificate was the
passport which led to his wanderings, but to begin with he was happy enough ..."
8. The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from the Works of edited by Alexander Whitelaw (1835)
"... packman. RY LEITCH RITCHIE.* IT was yet pretty early in the morning when I
arrived at the inn of ..."
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