chap·man /ˈʧæpmən/
商人,負販,叫賣小販
Chap·man n.; 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.
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Chapman
n 1: United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled
(1774-1845) [syn: John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed]
2: archaic term for an itinerant peddler