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Pushcart peddler in London
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coster
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coster \Cos"ter\ (k?s"t?r), n. [Abbrev. of costermonger.] One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
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Coster is a surname. Coster may also refer to: Coster or costermonger , a street seller of fruit and vegetables in Britain 10445 Coster , an asteroid
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n. costermonger
Usage examples of coster.
I was on as easy terms with him as with the costers and Rommany chals.
His was in the first law office that had been built in Bolton, somewhere around the turn of the century, and Coster had spent a small fortune restoring it to its original state.
There were blankets and baskets spread on neatly chalked squares on the paving, and Mick was telling her of ways the costers had to plump out shrunken fruit, and weave dead eels in with live.
Parked barrows crowded the curb, where costers stood bellowing, their velveteen coats set off with buttons of brass or pearl.
A visitor to that pub on the evening of August 10, 1854, would be greeted by a most peculiar spectacle, for although the pub was notably low-ceilinged, dingy, and cheap, it was filled with all manner of well-dressed gentlemen who rubbed shoulders with hawkers, costers, navvies, and others of the lowest social station.
Trent saw no incongruity in his presence among the lowest street hawkers and costers, it is also true that the hawkers and costers, usually tongue-tied and uneasy in the presence of gentlemen, were equally relaxed at these sporting events, laughing and nudging freely men whom they would not dare to touch under ordinary circumstances.
Samuel, as he mocked, pulled William away from the waterside, on to the roads meet There were hackneys to be hailed, nags for hire, costers and small children selling food, sweetmeats, and anything.
Coster has started the design of a surface catapult- it will reach from Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak.
Coster has started the design of a surface catapult-- it will reach from Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak.