Definition of chapman in English:
chapman
nounplural noun chapmen
archaicA peddler.
‘But these books are short - about twenty pages each - and without a spine, so we can call them chapbooks, which once meant works of popular literature sold for a few pennies, carried around by peddlers or ‘chapmen’.’- ‘The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.’
- ‘And smaller books were not just available from bookshops: all cities and towns would have had pedlars or chapmen selling pamphlets from trays or baskets hanging from their necks.’
- ‘Chapmen on foot were the poorest and those with shops the richest.’
- ‘In 1471 Roger leaves his monastic life to become a chapman.’
vendor, retailer, purveyor, shopkeeper, supplier, stockist, trader, merchant, dealer
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