chapman
noun
a peddler.
chapmen
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pluralof chapman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Earl Sigurd went back home early in the summer, but Gurmlaug took ship with chapmen, sailing for Norway, and he and Earl Sigurd parted in great friendship.
From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by William Morris
The Lord then drove such chapmen from the holy temple, because it was not raised for any trading, but for prayers.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
Merrily laughed the chapmen then, reining their great white horses back, "When the pageant passes, lad, we'll up and follow on!"
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
Said the third and youngest of the chapmen: "Go with us ye needs must till we have seen thy damsel safely set in good hands: or what do ye with her?"
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
And she had wherewithal to buy wares of likely chapmen, and to treat men-at-arms and others to wine and banquet.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
