Noun

(packmen)

(archaic) Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman.

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Thomas Hardy, title=The Return of the Native, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Various, title=Japanese Literature, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman , o'er life's dusty road. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1828, author=David Macbeth Moir, title=The Life of Mansie Wauch, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman , ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons. }}

Noun

(pacemen)

(cricket, Australia, India) A fast bowler; one who specialises in bowling fast.

* 1976 , , Volume 22, page 47,

The flair for bright batting went against them as they fell easy prey to the Aussie pacemen .

* 2001 , , Eleven: The Greatest Eleven of the 20th Century , page 100,

In the series he bowled 222.5 overs, a considerable number considering Test teams in 1948 could call upon a new ball every 55 overs and Australia had pacemen to burn in Lindwall, Miller, Johnston and Toshack.

* 2006 , , The Ashes: A Celebration , page 136,

Instead he went trout fishing on the Kiewa River in country Victoria, but not before leaving instructions to his pacemen to attack Bradman at every opportunity. Larwood took this to mean plenty of short stuff at the rib cage and head with five men in close catching positions.

* {{quote-news, 2009, January 25, , Cameron White and Ben Hilfenhaus return for Australia, Herald Sun citation

, passage=VICTORIA captain Cameron White and paceman Ben Hilfenhaus will return to the Australian team for the one-day international against South Africa tomorrow. }}

* 2008 February 4, Anil Kumble, ‘You need to keep talking’'', '' , page 45,

Fourteen Australian wickets fell to our pacemen , indicating that they were sticking to the plan.

* 2009 October, , page 763,

South African paceman Andre Nel on March 25, 2009 announced his retirement from international cricket after an eight year career during which he took more than 100 wickets in both forms of the game.

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