different between peddler vs tranter

English

Alternative forms

• pedlar (British)
• pedler (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin ped?rius, from Latin ped?re (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).

Noun

peddler (plural peddlers)

1. An itinerant seller of small goods.

   Synonyms: hawker, (obsolete) chapman, huckster, monger, colporteur, solicitor

2. A drug dealer.
3. (figuratively) A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.

Derived terms

• peddle (back-formation)

Translations

Further reading

• peddler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• traunter

Etymology

trant +? -er

Noun

tranter (plural tranters)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
   • 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead

     An’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast

     Vrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.

     He wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,

     Vor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;

   • 1929 Florence Hardy "The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1841-1891"

     ...the persons tenanting these few houses included two retired military officers, one old navy lieutenant, a small farmer and tranter, a relieving officer and registrar, and an old militiaman […]