subs. (common).—A street vendor; a Cheap Jack.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i., 392. The sellers of tins, who carry them under their arms, or in any way on a round, apart from the use of a vehicle, are known as HAND-SELLERS.
1876. C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 10. Cheap Jacks, as they were then as now called by the people, although the term ‘HAN’ SELLER’ is mostly used by themselves.
