Sc. ? Obs. Also cremar(e, creamer, crammer, craimer, kramer. [In 15th c. Sc., a. MLG. krêmer, kræmer, krâmer, or MDu. (Flem.) kramer, kraemer, in LG. krêmer, krâmer, mod.Du. kramer, petty trader, retailer, pedlar, hawker, prop. keeper of a CRAME; = OHG. chrâmari, krâmari, MHG. krâmære, krâmer, kræmer, kremer, mod.G. krämer (kramer): like the root-word, introduced by German trade into other langs.: Icel. kramari, Sw. krämare, Da. krämmer, Pol. kramarz, etc.]
One who sells goods at a stall or booth; also a pedlar or hawker.
1491. in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., I. 184. Graytht boycht be the King fra a cremar at the Kirk dure. Ibid. (1504), in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 120. To ane cremare for ane Psalter.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 300. James Dalzell merchand, and Alexander Fousie cramer.
1641. Sir T. Roe, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), IV. 458. The pedling French trade must be met with, by diligent search, at the landing of these creamers.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1842), III. 336. Diverse books set forth by Jesuits … inbrought in this countrie by Poles, crammers, and others.
1718. J. Scottiswoode, Forms of Process. Perquisites … from the kramers in the outer hall.
1791. Statist. Acc., II. 508 (Forfars.) (Jam.). 2 creamers, persons who go through the parish … and buy butter, hens, eggs, &c., mostly for the Dundee market.
