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ped·lar

(pĕd′lər)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of peddler.

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pedlar

;

peddler

pedler

(Commerce) a person who peddles; hawker

[C14: changed from peder, from ped, pedde basket, of obscure origin]

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ped•dler

(ˈpɛd lər)

n.

1. a person who sells from door to door or in the street.

2. a person who tries to promote some cause, candidate, viewpoint, etc.

Sometimes, pedlar, pedler.

[1350–1400; Middle English pedlere, unexplained alter. of peder, derivative of ped(de) basket]

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Noun

pedlar - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman

chapman - archaic term for an itinerant peddler

cheapjack - a peddler of inferior goods

crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

muffin man - formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins

sandboy - a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'

marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

transmigrante - a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell

pedlar

see peddler

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Translations

بائِع مُتَجَوِّل

podomnípouliční obchodník

dørsælger

farandsali

işportacıseyyar satıcı

流动小贩货郎

pedlar

[ˈpedləʳ] N → vendedor(a) m/f ambulante, buhonero (o.f.) m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pedlar

n → Hausierer(in) m(f); (of drugs) → Dealer(in) m(f) (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pedlar

[ˈpɛdləʳ] n → venditore/trice ambulante; (of drugs) → spacciatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

peddle

(ˈpedl) verb

to go from place to place or house to house selling (small objects). Gypsies often peddle (goods) from door to door.

ˈpedlar , (also, especially American) ˈpeddler noun

a person who peddles. I bought it from a pedlar.

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Snell, the landlord--he being, as he observed, a man accustomed to put two and two together--to connect with the tinder-box, which, as deputy-constable, he himself had had the honourable distinction of finding, certain recollections of a pedlar who had called to drink at the house about a month before, and had actually stated that he carried a tinder-box about with him to light his pipe.

Snell was correct in his surmise, that somebody else would remember the pedlar's ear-rings.

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A young fellow, a tobacco pedlar by trade, was on his way from Morristown, where he had dealt largely with the Deacon of the Shaker settlement, to the village of Parker's Falls, on Salmon River.

After an early breakfast at Morristown, the tobacco pedlar, whose name was Dominicus Pike, had travelled seven miles through a solitary piece of woods, without speaking a word to anybody but himself and his little gray mare.

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I suppose I could have passed for a pedlar, but undoubtedly it would have been very embarrassing.

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The pedlar's smile grew more ingratiating, though he understood no word of what Cronshaw said, and like a conjurer he produced a sandalwood box.

"Twenty-five francs," smiled the pedlar obsequiously.

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Of all deaths, I would truly like least to die by the gallows; and the picture of that uncanny instrument came into my head with extraordinary clearness (as I had once seen it engraved at the top of a pedlar's ballad) and took away my appetite for courts of justice.

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Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.

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Jos having, in his pompous way, and with his clumsy German, made inquiries for the person of whom he was in search, was directed to the very top of the house, above the first-floor rooms where some travelling pedlars had lived, and were exhibiting their jewellery and brocades; above the second-floor apartments occupied by the etat major of the gambling firm; above the third-floor rooms, tenanted by the band of renowned Bohemian vaulters and tumblers; and so on to the little cabins of the roof, where, among students, bagmen, small tradesmen, and country-folks come in for the festival, Becky had found a little nest--as dirty a little refuge as ever beauty lay hid in.

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I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.' 'No, Frederick,' said she, 'that I never will.' As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.

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The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies.