Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
1 They employed Mr Vaughan as a packman , to transport their goods.
2 You're an active packman , for they tell me you're never off the road.
3 However, private mail still goes by packman or common carrier.
4 I'm a truthful man, but I'll lie like a packman if I'm asked questions.
5 A packman was leading a train of donkeys inside.
6 I'll lee like a Scotch packman , and the Father o' lees could do nae mair.
7 Do you think that a cavalier's arm is to be bought like a packman 's ware.
8 Where is that damnable Scots packman ?
9 Out of the gig came the sack, and out of the sack speedily came the packman 's erstwhile acquaintance, Jock.
10 I will now turn in, father, to be ready to send off the fish as soon as the packman comes.
11 He thinks Beaufort's loyalty is to be bought like a packman 's ware, or bullied out of him by ruffling words.
12 A packman whom I thawed yesterday at my kitchen fire tells me that last Sabbath only the Auld Lichts held service.
13 I met an old packman on the road, and he tells me there are some persons in this village of my name.
14 Dandy Jim, the packman , was a young fellow who wanted more than evil weather and a dreich, black night to depress him.
15 That very night twelve months ago the packman was murdered at Broken Buss, and Easie Pettie hanged herself on the stump of a tree.
16 Timely warning was thus often given by a returning packman to a feeble and unsuspecting settlement, of the perfidy and cruelty meditated against it.
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