packman

American  

[pak-muhn] / ˈpæk mən /

noun

• packmen
  plural

1. a peddler.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• packmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of packman

First recorded in 1615–25; pack ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

packman packmen

The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman."

From Time Magazine Archive

Here's Andrew the packman in the lane, with such shawls, Martha!

From Fern's Hollow by Hesba Stretton

So cheer up, lak a good gal; an' nex' time the packman comes 'long—an' I'm lookin' fer him 'most any day—I'll buy you some ribbon fur yer hair an' a string uv beads.

From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne

A packman is a character which none esteems, and almost every one despises.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

I'm witty at the expense of this poor packman; but, seriously, Katherine Kennedy must carry off her lover.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

The packmen are so styled because of their visits being paid fortnightly.

From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

This hostelry, now extinct, was long a favourite resort of these packmen, or pack-carriers, as they were more generally or more properly called.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

You're used to seein' a different sort o' article carried by packmen, when you lived at the stone house.

From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Some, of small means, had commenced modestly with a shoulder-bundle and went through the new land, as peddlers and packmen in older lands had done before them.

From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In these posts the old fur-trade life of the past went on, with French half-breed packmen and boatmen, commanded by the bourgeois.

From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner