| 单词 | provision man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprovision man provision man n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions victualler1377 grocer1465 chandler1583 viander1598 sutler1710 provision man1859 1859 Harper's Mag. Apr. 621/1 When the horse man questioned the provision man, he said he'd taken it from a widow woman that kept a boarding-house in that neighborhood. 1912 L. M. Montgomery Chron. Avonlea (1940) viii. 222 When the provision man came into the yard I called to him from the window to bring me a box of soap in the afternoon, and then I tackled the sitting-room. 2005 Dict. Canad. Biogr. XV. 261/1 He outpaced the many other Ontario packers and provision men trying to exploit British demand for North American meat. < as lemmas |
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