Definition of Chapmen
Chap"man (?), n.; pl.
Chapmen (#). [AS. ceápman;
ceáp trade + man man; akin to D.
koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan.
kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to
cheapen, and see Cheap.] 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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- an English occupational surname for a merchant
chapman- (obsolete) a dealer or merchant, especially an itinerant one
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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