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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chapman \Chap"man\, n.; pl {Chapmen}. [AS. ce['a]pman; ce['a]p
trade + man man; akin to D. koopman Sw k["o]pman, Dan.
ki["o]pmand, G. kaufmann.f. {Chap} to cheapen, and see
{Cheap}.]
1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
[Obs.]
The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought
not as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who
are unwilling to buy it --T. Fuller.
2. A peddler; a hawker.
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