packman
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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 Stretton, Hesba
Lucindy an' me bought 'em of the packman with our own money.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
"And you're not a packman, only a little boy," she said, angrily; "how can you tell such stories?"
From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
Wilson knew that to a man like himself there was degradation in such a calling; and he latterly vented his contemptuous sense of it, exaggerating the baseness of the name and nature of packman.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Despite the cold—for the morning was sharp and frosty, though free from wind—there were half a dozen packmen drinking and squabbling before the inn, while the beasts they drove quenched their thirst at the trough.
From A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley John
Didn't I know as you'd remember the best bargains you've made in your life was made wi' packmen?
From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George
Most small packmen were then, in some measure, what Wilson says they were generally esteemed to be—peddling pilferers, and insignificant swindlers.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
The surgical skill of Dr. Bill was frequently needed for the drivers and packmen.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
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 Turner, Frederick Jackson
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