salesmaster

English

Etymology

sales +‎ master

Noun

salesmaster (plural salesmasters)

1. (Ireland, historical) One who sells goods on behalf of the owner.
   • 1847, Irish Equity Reports Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 399:

     The practice of country gentlemen dealing through salesmasters is always to treat them just in the same manner as bankers, the salesmaster keeping a running debit and credit account, and paying over sums from time to time as his employer calls for them.

   • 2004, Kaye Cole, The Germaines: A Huguenot Family from the Irish Midlands, page 13:

     His second wife was Maria Byme,4 one of the daughters of Joseph Byme, also a salesmaster of Smithfield, Dublin.