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Webster 1913 Edition
Chapman
Chap′man
,Noun.
pl.
Chapmen
(#)
. 1.
One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
[Obs.]
The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those
chapmen
who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.
2.
A peddler; a hawker.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chapman
CHAPMAN
,Noun.
1.
A cheapener; one that offers as a purchaser.Their chapmen they betray.
2.
A seller; a market-man.