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trader|ˈtreɪdə(r)|
[f. trade v. + -er1.]
1. One whose business is trade or commerce, or who is engaged in trading; a dealer or trafficker.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxv. 140 b, Great traders, with merchandise & ready monie. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 55 The traders and handie-craftsmen who had not their kinsemen there. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 133 Neither traders, nor often gentlemen, thought themselves disgraced by ignorance. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. xx. 40 One of those general gatherings of traders, trappers, and Indians. 1848J. Williams Law Pers. Prop. ii. iv. 108 No farmer, grazier, common labourer, or workman for hire,..shall be deemed as such a trader liable to become bankrupt. 1886L. O. Pike Year Bks. 13 & 14 Edw. III (Rolls) Introd. 83 Applicable to the servants of traders as well as to the servants of knights.
†b. A prostitute. Obs. slang.
1682Radcliffe Poems 45 Burdellos, T'encourage She-Traders and lusty young Fellows. 1693Humours Town 39, I mean not Common Women, that live by Fornication, publick Traders. 1760Foote Minor i. Wks. 1799 I. 247 Tip him an old trader, and give her to the knight.
c. A vessel engaged in trading; a trading ship.
1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5017/2 Ten sail of Irish Traders. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xii. 9 A trader for narrow rivers, with new arrangement of rudder. 1887H. W. Daly Digging, etc. S. Australia 296 The crews in the pearling schooners and small traders are very short-handed.
†d. A tradesman's token (token n. 10). Obs.
1775R. Twiss Tour Irel. (1776) 82 The want of small change [in 1727] was so great, that several persons were obliged to make copper and silver tokens, called Traders, which they passed as promissory notes among their work⁓men, customers, and neighbours.
†2. One who is occupied or concerned in something; a dealer. Obs.
1668Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. a j b, The constant..course..of these great Traders in Learning, to bring in their several acquests therein..into a common Stock. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 144 The nonconformists were great traders in Scripture. 1800Coleridge Piccolom. i. x, That ancient trader In contraband negociations. |