Definition: (noun) Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
Synonyms: hawker, packman, pitchman.
Usage: He used to tramp the countryside so far and so long that his father would say he feared his son was born to be nothing better than a wandering peddler.
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