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English
Etymology
From seed + -s- + -man.
Noun
seedsman (plural seedsmen)
- One who sows seeds.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
- A dealer in seed.
1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.
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