[
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/ˈpækmən/
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NOUN
- someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
How To Use packman In A Sentence
- The "Gibson" of this visit to Ayr is the same "silverheaded Packman" noted above. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- And my father was honoured to gie his testimony baith in the cage and in the pillory, as is specially mentioned in the books of Peter Walker the packman, that your honour, I dare say, kens, for he uses maist partly the westland of Scotland. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- He found a blacksmith labouring at his anvil and asked directions to the house of the wine merchant, where he gave the order for a tun of the local wine to be delivered by packman to the Earl's castle in late summer.
- At Heidelberg, making the acquaintance of M. Fortnoye contemporaneously with my departure, he had become more enthralled than he ever confessed to this radiant traveler -- whom he called a packman, but regarded as a M.rcury -- and his pretty scheme of matrimony in motion. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
- Put packman looking pieces in same order as clown picture in armory Archive 2007-08-01
- He gave the order for a tun of the local wine to be delivered by packman to the Earl's castle in late summer.
- She and her mother take refuge with the loyal friend of her childhood, the packman Bob Jakins.
- And my father was honoured to gie his testimony baith in the cage and in the pillory, as is specially mentioned in the books of Peter Walker the packman, that your honour, I dare say, kens, for he uses maist partly the westland of Scotland. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- And I bless God (with that singular worthy, Peter Walker the packman at Bristo – Port) ,26 that ordered my lot in my dancing days, so that fear of my head and throat, dread of bloody rope and swift bullet, and trenchant swords and pain of boots and thumkins, cauld and hunger, wetness and weariness, stopped the lightness of my head, and the wantonness of my feet. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- Why, you see even a squintin 'packman's better nor a shopman as can see straight. The Mill on the Floss