timber merchant

English

Noun

timber merchant (plural timber merchants)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A match-seller.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see timber,‎ merchant.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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