One who buys and sells in the gross, (i.e. in large quantities). A wholesale dealer or merchant. A trader who deals in spices, dried fruits, sugar, and in general, all articles of domestic consumption except those that are considered the distinctive wares of some other class of tradesmen (OED).
"The grocers are plentifully blessed, for
their figs and raisins, may attract fair lasses."
Pennyless Parliament, in Harley (1608).
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