[see -SHIP.] Performance of the functions of a chapman, trader or dealer.
1727–31. Bailey, vol. II., Chapmanry, Chapmanship, the employment or dealings of a chapman, or buyer or seller.
1827. Gentl. Mag., XCVII. II. 52. Chapmanship is the vogue of the day.
1885. Ch. Q. Rev., XXI. 177. To trust the chapmanship of the children of the East.
