0 present participle of peddle
1 to sell things, especially by taking them to different places:
The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
Two factors that led to this simplification were the conscription law and the increase in the significance of peddling.
After the excesses of the 1980s, archeology today could benefit from more original efforts of this sort and fewer merchants peddling the latest neologism.
Old-fashioned door-to-door peddling was also given scope for expansion.
They wanted heavier taxation on the farmer and a stricter control over those who wished to engage in peddling.
Obviously, the opportunities for such conversations are even more reduced in the case of the more spatially isolated - but almost as common - women's occupations, such as street selling and peddling.
The aim of his formula was to soften manners, not mortality: the rude exponents were those men whose enthusiasm in peddling their product had exceeded the bounds of politeness.
One of my roles is to protect my patients from those peddling a panacea who in the process may impose burdensome costs, be they physical, psychological, or financial.
This is not a matter of a fundamentally unsound selling method or of peddling unattractive goods.
