vender

Part of speech: noun

One who vends; a pedler. vendor.

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Usage examples "vender":

  1. As soon as a mining camp begins to assume the proportions of a city, at about the time the whiskey- vender draws his cork or the gambler spreads his green cloth, Maguire opens a theatre, and with a hastily- organized " Vigilance Committee" of actors, commences to execute Shakespeare. - "The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4", Charles Farrar Browne.
  2. Old Jimmy Johnson, the ancient negro fruit- and peanut- vender, stood beside the Cannon, against which leaned his wheelbarrow heaped high with a mass of small orange- and- black objects, and over them waved an orange banner on which were two big black letters, C. C. That was all there was to look at; and old Jimmy was as silent and bored- looking as ever. - "The Adventures of a Freshman", Jesse Lynch Williams.
  3. Prayers are not known at the man shambles, though the hammer of the vender seals with death the lives of many. - "Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter", F. Colburn Adams.