seedsman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or business that sells seeds

   The seedsman supplied local farms with wheat and clover seed.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who sows seed

   The seedsman scattered grain across the prepared field.

An English compound of seed, a linking -s-, and man. Since the early seventeenth century it has referred both to one who sows seed and to a merchant who deals in it.

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