Definition of "seedsman"

seedsman

noun
plural seedsmen
1. One who sows seeds.
  Quotations
  […] the seedsmanUpon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii]
2. A dealer in seed.
  Quotations
  Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.
  1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations