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Definition of Pedlars
1. pedlar [n] - See also: pedlar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedlars
Literary usage of Pedlars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: (Several by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1816)
"Mr. Pulteney moved for leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend so much of
the act respecting the hawkers and pedlars as restrains them from exposing ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1896)
"By section 6 of the pedlars Act, 1871, a pedlar's certificate shall, for the
purpose of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847, have the same effect as a ..."
3. Owen's New Book of Fairs, Published by the King's Authority: Published by by William Owen (1788)
"July 8, for pedlars ware.. Southwick. May 19, for pedlars ware. ... Oft. io, for
cattle and pedlars ware* Rje. (64). ..."
4. Thomas' Town Officer: A Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to by Dwight Foster, James E. Estabrook (1856)
"DUTIES OF SELECTMEN, CONCERNING -HAWKERS AND pedlars- 1* Hawkers, pedlars, petty
chapmen, and other itinerant dealers, to be licensed. 2. ..."
5. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"... in these primitive labour unions; but how the lady in her bovver, in closer
touch with the people, receiving visits from foreign merchants and pedlars, ..."
6. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1825)
"Madras is visited by French pedlars from Pondicherry, selling lares and pedlars,
artificial flowers; and a few Mahometans go about selling amber, ..."
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