Seedsmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From seed +‎ -s- +‎ -man.

名詞

seedsman (複数形 seedsmen)

1. One who sows seeds.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vii]:

     […] the seedsman
     Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

2. A dealer in seed.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:

     Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.

同意語

• corn-factor
• grain agent (North America)