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A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) [a] is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods. In 19th-century America the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exemplified in the popular play Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer by George H. Jessop .
In England and Europe during the medieval period, the term "huckster" was synonymous with "peddler." [5] [6] Hucksters and peddlers belonged to a broad group of resellers who purchased surplus stocks from weekly provincial markets and fairs and then resold them at larger daily markets or engaged in door-to-door selling.
Thieves' cant (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) [1] is a cant, cryptolect, or argot which was formerly used by thieves, beggars, and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries.
The British English form and original spelling of peddler; Entertainment. The Pedlar (or The Wayfarer), a painting by Hieronymus Bosch; The Isis Pedlar, a novel;
Peddler, a traveling vendor of goods; a merchant dealer, such as: Costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym) peddler; Cheesemonger, a specialist seller of cheeses; Fellmonger, a merchant of hides and skins; Fishmonger, a wholesaler or retailer of raw fish and seafood
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When printing Lithuanian language books in Latin alphabet was forbidden in Russian Empire, book peddlers, knygnešiai in Lithuanian, smuggled the books printed abroad, in Lithuania Minor, under the threat of criminal prosecution.
[2] [3] [4] An edition of Hobson-Jobson from this period similarly defined a boxwallah as "a native itinerant peddler" who "sells cutlery, cheap nick-nacks, and small wares of all kinds, chiefly European", [5] as did another dictionary of slang. [6] The word was a combination of "box" and "wallah". [5]