| 单词 | peddling out |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeddling out 1. The action of peddle v.1 (in various senses). Also peddling out. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > itinerant selling pedlary1531 hawking1542 bogginga1555 peddling1591 pedlarism1699 pedlaring1839 doorstepping1909 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > in small quantities morselling1838 peddling out1898 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Regatonia Pedling, buying of small wares. 1607 R. Johnson Pleasant Conceites Old Hobson 7 Follow thy old trade of pedling again & one day thou maiest pay me all. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 72 Little Wagons..full of pedling Merchandises,..drawne by Mastive-Dogs. 1693 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 792 The best of Trade that can be driven is only a sort of Scotch Pedling. 1730 D. Defoe Brief State Home Trade Eng. vii. 56 It is not the Men that we so earnestly move against..; 'tis the Hawking and Peddling in all its various Forms and Shapes. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. i. xviii. 150 That lower species of trade called Pedling. 1857 O. W. Wight Quinland I. 100 He invested [$300] in an old horse and wagon..and started for the interior, on a peddling tour. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. vi. 45 I call it hawking and peddling, that going round the country with your goods on your back. It aint trade. 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being ii. 22 A slow peddling-out of Admiralty allowance for the month. 1953 ‘P. Lanham’ & A. S. Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boy's Moon vi. 131 There is..a huge trade carried on in South Africa in the growing, smuggling and peddling of dagga. 1996 Observer 29 Dec. 18/7 There is nothing hole-and corner about the endemic peddling of financial influence. < as lemmas |
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