Definitions for packman

packman pack·man

Spelling: [pak-muh n]
IPA: /ˈpæk mən/

Packman is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in packman (aackmnp).

Definitions for packman

noun

  1. a peddler.

Origin of packman

First recorded in 1615-25; pack1 + -man

Examples for packman

You wad think she never had heard o' Willie Broonclod, the packman, that she sloped when she left doon the country.

His early career was varied, and he was in succession a packman, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master.

You have commenced at the hardest part of a packman's life—his journey in England.

The packman was immediately commanded to halt, and lay his packs upon the ground.

However, private mail still goes by packman or common carrier.

They employed Mr Vaughan as a packman, to transport their goods.

When he remembered he had been a packman in England it was exceedingly fine.

The packman let me have the cloth for the stockings I have knitted, look you.'

But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent.

Here's Andrew the packman in the lane, with such shawls, Martha!

Word Value for packman
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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