stallman

See also: Stallman

English

Etymology

stall +‎ -man

Noun

stallman (plural stallmen)

1. One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     […] the strong fancy which the stallman saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it

2. (mining, historical) A subcontractor in charge of a stall or working place.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stallman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tallmans