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pieman

/ ˈpaɪmən /

noun

  1. obsolete.
    a seller of pies


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I shall feel myself a pieman's chuckpenny as long as I'm unproductive, now I 've come back and have to own to a home,' he said.

I had noticed a famous pieman, and thought I could do it better myself.

Pieman and ballad-monger did their usual roaring trade amidst the dense throng.

On these marine stations (as at Pieman's River on the west coast), their huts were constructed with more care.

Do our readers recollect a Pantomime some years ago, in which he was introduced begging a tart from a pieman?

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