barterer

Example Sentences

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The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! now I know where he goes to pilfer iron filings, which he sells for old papers, that barterer of a Garoffi!

From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

One was a trader, shrewd and thrifty; the other, a trapper, which made it a game between a canny barterer on one side and a reckless spender on the other.

From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.

The trading room of McGlenn offered no exception to the rule, and his window seats were good resting places for the casual barterer.

From The Wolf's Long Howl by Waterloo, Stanley

He dwindles now to the mere barterer and so—save for a few chance glimpses—slips out of sight, for his brave days as Imperial Scout are done.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay