(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a personal]] items; specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.
And then the swagman was such a companionable little fellow, and told such funny little yarns, and sung so many snatches of odd songs whilst he was at work that once or twice the old man relaxed the cross expression of his facial muscles…
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(Britain, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.
Then the bells struck up for church, and the streets became crowded with well-dressed, warmly-clothed people, hurrying to their various places of worship, and casting glances of pitying curiosity at the two miserable, half-drowned swagme…
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(US, slang) A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence.
[T]he class who exercise the most depressing influence on these rates, little as the unhappy men think themselves so, will be found to consist of idlers and swagmen.
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