"packman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pack + -man",
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      "form": "packmen",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1912, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1900, Various, Japanese Literature",
          "text": "L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch",
          "text": "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 Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.",
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        "Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman."
      ],
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        "(archaic) Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman."
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        {
          "word": "peddler"
        },
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          "word": "pedlar"
        }
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  "word": "packman"
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  "etymology_text": "pack + -man",
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    {
      "form": "packmen",
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          "ref": "1912, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch",
          "text": "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 Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman, ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons.",
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        "Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman."
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        "(archaic) Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman."
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