seedman

English

Etymology

seed + -man

Noun

seedman (plural seedmen)

  1. Alternative form of seedsman
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 1, p. 4,
      Early in the century, Momma [] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard [] and the seedmen at the cotton gin [] .

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 seedman in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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