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n. (context dated English) (alternative form of peddler English)
Usage examples of "pedler".
Chap Men, or Running, Flying, and other mercurial stationers, peripatetic booksellers, pedlers, packmen, and again chepmen, these visited the villages and small towns from the large printers of the supply towns, as London, Banbury, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.
Among rogues and idle persons, finally, we find to be comprised all proctors that go up and down with counterfeit licences, cozeners, and such as gad about the country, using unlawful games, practisers of physiognomy and palmestry, tellers of fortunes, fencers, players, minstrels, jugglers, pedlers, tinkers, pretended scholars, shipmen, prisoners gathering for fees, and others so oft as they be taken without sufficient licence.
All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing.
She had a great aversion to pedlers, and declared they were cheats, every one of them.
The widow was always very polite to him after that, and, though she had a mortal dislike to pedlers in general, she was always ready to trade with him.