Chapman
Chapman , noun
[Anglo-Saxon ceápman; ceáp trade + man man; akin to Dutch koopman, Swedish kopman, Danish kiopmand, German kaufmann.f. Chap to cheapen, and see Cheap.]
1.
One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obsolete]
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.
2.
A peddler; a hawker.