Chap"man (?), n.; pl. Chapmen (#). [AS. ce�xa0;pman; ce�xa0;p trade + man man; akin to D. koopman, Sw. kopman, Dan. kiopmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to cheapen, and see Cheap.]
1.
One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
[Obs.]
The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it.
T. Fuller.
2.
A peddler; a hawker.
© Webster 1913.