Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The keeper of a junk-shop; a junkman.
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Examples
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When the loathsome Gardulla the Hutt lost us to Watto the junk-dealer I got my first chance to take machines apart and put them back together, and it was amazing.
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When the loathsome Gardulla the Hutt lost us to Watto the junk-dealer I got my first chance to take machines apart and put them back together, and it was amazing.
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Colonel Ernst thinks that the cannon have been carried off one by one by this man, and sold to some junk-dealer as old metal.
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Word has been sent to every junk-dealer, in hopes of finding the
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Whitey some ten days earlier; wherefore he at once drove to the shop of the junk-dealer who had made the offer and announced his acquiescence in the sacrifice.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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Three or four dim shops, a single story in height, exhibited foul signboards, yet fair enough so far as the wording went; one proclaiming a tobacconist, one a junk-dealer, one a dispenser of ` ` soft drinks and cigars. ''
Alice Adams 1921
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He obtained the instrument for twenty-two cents, a price long since agreed upon with the junk-dealer, who falsely claimed a loss of profit, Shylock that he was!
Penrod 1914
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He obtained the instrument for twenty-two cents, a price long since agreed upon with the junk-dealer, who falsely claimed a loss of profit, Shylock that he was!
Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907
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Whitey some ten days earlier; wherefore he at once drove to the shop of the junk-dealer who had made the offer and announced his acquiescence in the sacrifice.
Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907
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If she said so, I would carry all our little property, piece by piece, back to old Thunberg, the junk-dealer, and with her parrot and my umbrella we would go out to Kansas, as we used to propose.
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