Noun

(en noun)

An itinerant seller of small goods; a hawker.

A dealer in illegal drugs.

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. }}