coster

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated British: a street seller of fruit, vegetables, or other goods; a costermonger

   The coster arranged oranges on his barrow before the market opened.

A nineteenth-century clipping of costermonger, originally a seller of costards, a type of large apple. As the trade broadened, costermonger and coster came to mean a street vendor of fruit, vegetables, and similar goods.

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