rare. [f. TRUCK v.1 + -STER.] A base trafficker; cf. TRUCK v.1 3.
1815. Royal Cornwall Gaz., 4 March, 1/3. They had now descended from the eminence on which they then stood to become hucksters and trucksters for territory.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Death Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, v.
Not for base-born, higgling Saxon trucksters | |
Ring laments like these by shore and sea; | |
Not for churls with souls of hucksters | |
Waileth our Banshee! |
1868. Tuckerman, Collector, 83. Many a poet has degenerated into a hack, a truckster, and a mercenary penman.