Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer having supervision of markets and the administration of laws respecting them.
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Examples
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Bush braced himself up, and said: "I have been market-master here for twenty years, and that is the largest _pike_ I ever saw in this market."
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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I invited the old man and the "market-master" to join me in a cup of coffee.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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