packman
Americannoun
plural
packmenEtymology
Origin of packman
Example Sentences
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The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Davy plucked at his mother's skirts and reminded her that he was to be finally breeched when the packman came round, and he was not disappointed.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus
One may imagine the delight of a lonely town-end, when Willie the packman and the piper made his appearance, with his stories, and jokes, and ballads, his songs, and reels, and “wanton wiles.”
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
"I'm the man," shouted Coristine to them, "the packman wi' a little pack."
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
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
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