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seedsman|ˈsiːdsmən|
[f. genitive of seed n. + man n.1 Cf. seedman.]
1. A sower of seed.
1601Holland Pliny xviii. xiii. I. 571 Moreover, they would haue the seeds-man to be naked when he soweth them. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 24. 1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee, etc. i. 115 A plain and ordinary man, a Plough-man and Seedsman. 1764J. Randall in Gentl. Mag. XXXIV. 515/1 The seedsman can easily lift it [sc. the seed plough] up by the handles, even when the hopper is quite full. 1787Burns Song, ‘Again rejoicing Nature sees’ iii, The merry Plough-boy cheers his team, Wi' joy the tentie Seedsman stalks. 1854M. Howitt Pict. Calendar 107 A..train of ploughmen and seedsmen preparing the ground for fresh harvests. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie, etc. 24 The seedsman had scattered the handfu's abroad.
fig.1592Nashe P. Penilesse K 2, The second kind of Diuels..called..the authors of massacres, & seedsmen of mischiefe. 1726Penn Tracts Wks. I. 537 It is granted by all that I know of, that the Seeds-Man is Christ. 1833Tennyson Poems 123 The seedsman, memory, Sowed my deepfurrowed thought with many a name [etc.].
2. A dealer in seed.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 33 note, The Wife of..Bury, a Seeds-man, living at the Frying-pan in Newgate Market. 1742De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 162 From this Place also the Seedsmen in London are furnished with the greatest Quantity of their Seeds. 1801Farmer's Mag. Nov. 443 The ground would be sufficiently filled with roots, not to be purchased in the seedsman's shop. 1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 148 Eliminate the stimulus given by manufacturers of implements, of artificial manures, and by the numerous competing seedsmen, and our agricultural shows would simply be a series of cattle fairs. |