CHAPMAN

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• CHAPMAN (noun)
  The noun CHAPMAN has 2 senses:

1. United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

2. archaic term for an itinerant peddler

  Familiarity information: CHAPMAN used as a noun is rare.

• CHAPMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chapman; John Chapman; Johnny Appleseed

Instance hypernyms:

pioneer (one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Archaic term for an itinerant peddler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chapman" is a kind of...):

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman (someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals))

 Context examples 

Further on, at the edge of the woodland, he came upon a chapman and his wife, who sat upon a fallen tree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And you know you had Chapman to help you to dress.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There were folk, too, to be met upon the road—beggars and couriers, chapmen and tinkers—cheery fellows for the most part, with a rough jest and homely greeting for each other and for Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am very glad I sent Chapman to you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But your chapman or your bearward will swear that there is a lime in the wine, and water in the ale, and fling off at the last with a curse instead of a blessing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Yes,” said Lady Bertram, “she looks very well. I sent Chapman to her.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Take now your choice of these, my worthy gentlemen, and pay such a price as your consciences will suffer you to offer; for I am not a chapman nor a huckster, and I would never part with them, did I not know that I am very near to my reward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Chapman helped her to dress. I sent Chapman to her.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The chapman broke a rough jest as he passed, and the woman called shrilly to Alleyne to come and join them, on which the man, turning suddenly from mirth to wrath, began to belabor her with his cudgel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Chapman had just reached the attic floor, when Miss Price came out of her room completely dressed, and only civilities were necessary; but Fanny felt her aunt's attention almost as much as Lady Bertram or Mrs. Chapman could do themselves.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)