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American pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
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chapman
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chapman is an English surname derived from the Old English occupational name céapmann “marketman, monger, merchant”, from the verb céapan, cypan “to buy or sell” and the noun form ceap "barter, business; a purchase." Alternate spellings include Caepmon, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"peddler, itinerant tradesman," Middle English form of Old English ceapman "tradesman," from West Germanic compound *kaupman- (cognates: Old High German choufman , German Kauffman , Middle Dutch and Dutch koopman ), formed with equivalents of man (n.) + ...
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Population (2000): 1241 Housing Units (2000): 534 Land area (2000): 0.762558 sq. miles (1.975017 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.762558 sq. miles (1.975017 sq. km) FIPS code: 12550 Located within: Kansas ...
Usage examples of chapman.
If, as Chapman and Asin had said, Polanski was in Europe, this made no sense.
He added that as no shipwrights could be found in London to repair it till after Christmas, the chapman, a Cypriote, who was in charge of the wine, was selling as much as he could in Southminster and to the houses about at a cheap rate, and delivering it by means of a wain that he had hired.
But the enterprise failed for want of funds to finish it, and Dogtown went to the dogs, and the Chapman family to Nyack.
There was an air of improvement about the parlor, an evidence, indeed, that the Chapmans had renounced their Dogtown habits, and were bent on getting up in the world.
Mike Chapman, Will Nedim, and I were sitting in my conference room with Helena Lisi, counsel for Tiffany Gatts.
Names like those of Lufbery, Thaw, McConnell, Chapman, Prince, Rockwell, Hill, Rumsey, Johnson, Balsley and others became household words among readers of the great dailies in the States.
They know that morphs had even infiltrated the home of one of their most important Controllers -- Chapman.
What if I proved your sagest chapmen fools, and gorge your greedy moneychangers with the gold that they desire until they loathe its very sight and touch?
It was almost right next to Spitalfields Market and a short walk from both Goulston Street to the south and Hanbury Street, site of the Chapman murder, to the northeast.
General Burnett, Mr and Mrs Bullett-Finch, Colonel and Mrs Chapman, Miss Percival, Mrs Thomas, the Dickinsons, all seven of them, and the Fullbrooks who rented a farm from the General.
Sir Giles Lynchwood, General Burnett, Colonel Chapman, Mr Bullett-Finch, Miss Percival.
From his tree he had watched General Burnett and Colonel Chapman and Miss Percival arrive.
The General and Colonel Chapman turned and looked out of the window in horror.
The General and Colonel Chapman rushed out and dragged her back still waving the poker and shooing.
Colonel Chapman, who felt that General Burnett was taking the whole affair too calmly.