boothman

Noun

rare

(rare) One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing. / (archaic or chiefly dialectal) A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. / A projectionist at a movie theater.

Japanese Meaning

フェアなどでブースを担当する者（ブース管理人） / （古語・方言）特にニューカッスル・アポン・タインで、穀物を扱う商人 / 映画館などで映写機を操作する人、映写技師

What is this buttons?

The boothman at the county fair handed me a ribbon and asked if I would judge the pie contest.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

郡の祭りで屋台の係の人が私にリボンを手渡し、パイコンテストの審査員をしてくれないかと尋ねました。

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Sense（1）

(rare) One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.

A little later a man came running and he called urgently for Leif Ossursson, bade him go in haste to Gilli lawspeaker's booth: — Sigurd Thorlaksson ran in through the doorflap there and he wounded one of his boothmen to the death.

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Sense（2）

(archaic or chiefly dialectal) A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He was not a native of Newcastle, but bad apparently come from the country in youth to serve his apprenticeship as a boothman, or corn merchant; had gone, when out of his time, to gain experience of commercial life in Germany; and […]

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