A merchant, trader, dealer, or trafficker (frequently of a specified commodity); (from the 16th cent.) a person engaged in a petty or disreputable…

A man whose business is buying and selling; a merchant, trader, dealer. Obsolete or archaic.

Formerly, a dealer in a variety of articles now dealt with by other trades, including caps, and probably hats: see quots.

a trader or merchant.

A person who deals with or trades in goods or commodities; (now also) spec. a person who handles stolen goods.

One who is not a freeman of a corporation.

spec. A person who uses money or goods in trading; a trader, a dealer, a merchant. Obsolete.

A person who receives money, rent, tolls, etc. Also: a purchaser or purveyor of commodities. Obsolete.

A person engaged in trading, esp. one who buys and sells goods as an occupation; a trader, a merchant, a dealer. Now rare and chiefly historical.

With plural agreement. Pincers with gripping jaws, usually having serrated surfaces which close flat, used for bending or cutting wire, gripping or…

A chapman, merchant, dealer. Obsolete.

A person engaged in trading or commerce; a person who buys and sells goods; a dealer.

= copeman, n.1

One who barters, deals, or buys and sells. Cf. coper, n.1 Now chiefly in combinations, as herring-couper, horse-couper, etc.

figurative and in extended use. A dealer in goods, etc.; a trafficker, pedlar. Obsolete.

A trader, a businessman. Obsolete.

A person or business trading in merchandise; a commodity dealer; a trader or merchant. In later use also: a stock-display assistant; a person who…

One who ‘copes’; a dealer, chapman.

One who deals in merchandise, a trader; spec. one who sells articles in the same condition in which he has bought them; often in combination, as ca…

A trader.

A person who trades in, or as if in, a market. Obsolete. rare.

a merchant or shopkeeper who deals in many kinds of goods.

A person who conducts negotiations, a negotiator; an agent or representative. Formerly also: †a merchant or trader (obsolete).

A person who, or establishment which, provides outfits; spec. (a) a shop selling clothing, esp. menswear; (b) originally and chiefly North American…

As the second element of a compound. With prefixed noun: a trader in or manufacturer of the specified product, as ale-man, lead-man, rag-and-bone man…