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crateman|ˈkreɪtmæn| Also 8 (?) crades-man. A man who carries a crate; a hawker of pottery.
1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 124 The poor Crate-men, who carry them [pots] at their backs. a1750Jack Horner 18 For crowders they are rogues I know, And crades-men they are worse. 1865E. Meteyard Life Wedgwood I. 107 The Cratemen packed their wares, as they came from the oven, into crates which swung on either side their sorry beasts. |