Definitions for packmen

packmen pack·man

Spelling: [pak-muh n]
IPA: /ˈpæk mən/

Packmen 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 147 anagrams from letters in packmen (acekmnp).

Definitions for packmen

noun

  1. a peddler.

Origin of packmen

First recorded in 1615-25; pack1 + -man

Examples for packmen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for packmen
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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