pedlar
noun
[ ˈpɛdlə ]
• a person who goes from place to place selling small items.
• "the visit of the pedlar to Irish country houses was a very special event in the lives of children in the 1950s"
Similar:
travelling salesman,
door-to-door salesman,
street trader,
barrow boy,
higgler,
fly-pitcher,
hawker,
chapman,
packman,
huckster,
crier,
colporteur,
• variant spelling of peddler (sense 1).
Origin:
Middle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped ‘pannier’.
