Word Meanings - COLPORTEUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books. (more info) fr. colporter to carry on one's neck; col neck + porter

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• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• PORTERESS
  See PORTRESS
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• DISTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• PORTERHOUSE
  A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
• DISTRIBUTIVE
  A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
• PORTER
  A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled is hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• SELL
  1. A saddle for a horse. He left his lofty steed with golden self. Spenser. 2. A throne or lofty seat. Fairfax.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• DISTRIBUTION
  A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
• CARRYALL
  A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
• RELIGIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
• DISTRIBUTARY
  Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
• BOOKSELLER
  One who sells books.
• DISTRIBUTER
  One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• EYSELL
  See SHAK
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROSELLA
  A beautiful Australian parrakeet often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
• DAMOSEL; DAMOSELLA; DAMOISELLE
  See DAMSEL
• BISSELL TRUCK
  A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.
• MADEMOISELLE
  A marine food fish , of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch. (more info) 1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.
• OUTSELL
  1. To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than. 2. To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value. Fuller. Shak.
• SCARRY
  Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
• RUMSELLER
  One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious