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
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
Nay, then, faces this way; we'll sell our skins to the fairest chapmen.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
They had a good few of sumpter-horses with them, and it as soon clear to see that, though they were weaponed, they were not men-at-arms, but chapmen.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
The vilest traffickers in souls are all His chapmen, and for gold a prebend’s stall He’ll sell them, or an abbacy or mitre.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
