† swaddern.
Cant. Obsolete.
(See quot. 1567.)
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar
pedder1166
pedlar1307
dustyfoota1400
tranter1500
hawker1510
jagger?1518
jowter1550
pedder-coffec1550
pedderman1552
petty chapman1553
swadder1567
packman1571
merchant1572
swigman1575
chapman?1593
aginator1623
crier1727
duffer1735
Jew pedlar1743
fogger1800
Jew1803
box wallah1826
packie1832
cadger1840
jolter1841
pack-pedlar1859
knocker1934
doorstepper1976
machinga1993
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > who attacks and robs
swadder1567
thug1810
Phansigar1813
nooser1816
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Eiv These Swadders & pedlers, be not all evyl. [Cf. a1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Swadlers, the tenth Order of the Canting Tribe (1725 New Canting Dict. adds who, not content to rob and plunder, beat and barbarously abuse, and often murder the Passengers).]
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