(UK, Irish) A vendor who sells fruit and vegetables from a cart or barrow in the street.
Saint Monday Gemmen held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little calculated to astonish the spectators at his…
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