Coster
[kɔstә]
Definition
(n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
Checker: Osbert
Examples
- Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In Haarlem, one Coster was printing from movable type somewhen before 1446. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checked by Flossie