seedsman
English
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Noun
seedsman (plural seedsmen)
- One who sows seeds.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
- […] the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
- A dealer in seed.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
- Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.
Synonyms
- corn-factor
- grain agent (North America)
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