Verb

(peddl)

To sell things, especially door to door.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

To sell illegal narcotics.

(derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.

* 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)

Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.

* 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)

Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.

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