Crateman. World English Historical Dictionary

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Also 8 (?) crades-man. A man who carries a crate; a hawker of pottery.

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1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 124. The poor Crate-men, who carry them [pots] at their backs.

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a. 1750[?].  Jack Horner, 18. For crowders they are rogues I know, And crades-men they are worse.

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1865.  E. Meteyard, Life Wedgwood, I. 107. The Cratemen packed their wares, as they came from the oven, into crates which swung on either side their sorry beasts.

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