packman

Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman.

Noun

  1. Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman.
    • Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress. - 1912,...
    • L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road. - 1900, Various, Japanese Literature:
    • Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr...

Origin

From pack + -man.

Forms

packmen

Synonyms

peddler pedlar