pedlar

See also: Pedlar

English

Etymology

From Middle English pedlare, variant of Middle English pedare. More at peddler.

Noun

pedlar (plural pedlars)

1. (chiefly British, otherwise dated) Alternative spelling of peddler
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 162:

     After a time she touched the bell, with great caution; the cook appeared, to whom she gave a slip of paper, on which the woman vanished, leaving the little pedlar of small wares standing on the steps, where she had already placed her basket,...

   • 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:

     I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows.

Derived terms

• dope-pedlar

 

References

• “pedlar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• LARPed, larped, parled, predal