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Seedsman

Seedsman \Seeds"man\, n.; pl. Seedsmen (-men).

  1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

    The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
    --Shak.

  2. A person who deals in seeds.

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seedsman

n. 1 One who sows seeds. 2 A dealer in seed.

WordNet
seedsman

n. a dealer in seeds [syn: seedman]

Usage examples of "seedsman".

Samson was a west country seedsman and sportsman, who loved a good song, a social glass, and relished a shot so well that he expressed a wish to die and be buried in the moors.

It was for embezzling the sum of twenty--two shillings and fourpence, which had been entrusted to him when he was an apprentice for his master, who was a market gardener, seedsman and florist.

Several years ago a Boston seedsman imported a lot of cabbage seed from Europe, under the name of Early Brunswick Short Stemmed.

He went in and got a number of the catalogues and other advertisements, and addressed them then and there, in a wrapper the seedsman gave him, to Miss Barbara F.

Langbourne, and begged to know from him whether the seedsman in question was reliable: it was so difficult to get garden seeds that one could trust.

Pumblechook’s premises in the High-Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.