† handsellern.

Forms: 1800s handseller, 1800s hanseller.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., seller n.¹

Etymology: < hand n. + seller n.¹ Compare hand-selling n.², and earlier handsell v., hand-sold adj.

British. Obsolete.

1. An itinerant auctioneer who sells by Dutch auction (see auction n. 3). Cf. Cheap Jack n. and adj. at cheap adj., adv., and n.² Compounds.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > cheap-jack

Cheap John1826

handseller1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 328/1 In the provinces, and in Scotland, there may be 100 ‘cheap Johns’, or, as they term themselves, ‘Han-sellers’.

1865 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 5/2 A glib ‘hand-seller’..mounted on his rostrum, dilates upon the contents of the volumes which he has to sell.

1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 May 1195/2 The defendant had been rated as a ‘quack doctor’ on the 5s. scale [of market toll] instead of the 1d. per foot scale for hand sellers.

2. A street dealer who carries his stock instead of using a vehicle. rare.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor

costermonger?1518

street vendor1840

street trader1845

coster1851

handseller1851

patterer1851

umbrella man1851

gutter-man1892

dragger1896

gutter-merchant1896

pitcher1896

pitchman1914

pitchwoman1927

barrow boy1939

fly-pitcher1965

mama put1979

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 354/1 The sellers of tins, who carry them under their arms, or in any way..apart from the use of a vehicle, are known as hand-sellers. The word hand-seller is construed by the street-traders as meaning literally hand-seller, that is to say, a seller of things held or carried in the hand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	handseller
释义	† handsellern. Forms: 1800s handseller, 1800s hanseller. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., seller n.¹ Etymology: < hand n. + seller n.¹ Compare hand-selling n.², and earlier handsell v., hand-sold adj. British. Obsolete. 1. An itinerant auctioneer who sells by Dutch auction (see auction n. 3). Cf. Cheap Jack n. and adj. at cheap adj., adv., and n.² Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > cheap-jack Cheap John1826 handseller1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 328/1 In the provinces, and in Scotland, there may be 100 ‘cheap Johns’, or, as they term themselves, ‘Han-sellers’. 1865 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 5/2 A glib ‘hand-seller’..mounted on his rostrum, dilates upon the contents of the volumes which he has to sell. 1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 May 1195/2 The defendant had been rated as a ‘quack doctor’ on the 5s. scale [of market toll] instead of the 1d. per foot scale for hand sellers. 2. A street dealer who carries his stock instead of using a vehicle. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > street vendor costermonger?1518 street vendor1840 street trader1845 coster1851 handseller1851 patterer1851 umbrella man1851 gutter-man1892 dragger1896 gutter-merchant1896 pitcher1896 pitchman1914 pitchwoman1927 barrow boy1939 fly-pitcher1965 mama put1979 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 354/1 The sellers of tins, who carry them under their arms, or in any way..apart from the use of a vehicle, are known as hand-sellers. The word hand-seller is construed by the street-traders as meaning literally hand-seller, that is to say, a seller of things held or carried in the hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1851
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