seedman
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editseedman (plural seedmen)
- Alternative form of seedsman
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 4:
- Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […] .
References
edit- “seedman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.