Definition of "pedlar" [ped•lar]

• Chiefly British Variant of peddler. (noun)

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• "In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor -- this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days -- read aloud a portion from the Bible."
• "“Ay,” replied mine host, laughing, “and he who meets him may meet his match — the pedlar is a tall man.”"
• "One could hardly say that he was to blame for that, either, as the photographer who paid for the item didn't say the pedlar was a woman, and the boy was no clairvoyant."