a person who in the past travelled from place to place trying to sell small objects (旧时的)流动小贩 They were essentially a poor community of cattle traders and pedlars. 他们本质上是一个由牛贩子和小贩组成的贫穷社区。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPedlar is used after these nouns:- dope
- street
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped ‘pannier’.