stallman

From stall +‎ -man.

stallman (plural stallmen)

1. A male stallholder, especially one who sells books.
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     […] the strong fancy which the stallman saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it

2. (mining, historical) A subcontractor in charge of a stall or working place.

• “stallman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tallmans