Also 8 (?) crades-man. A man who carries a crate; a hawker of pottery.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 124. The poor Crate-men, who carry them [pots] at their backs.
a. 1750[?]. Jack Horner, 18. For crowders they are rogues I know, And crades-men they are worse.
1865. E. Meteyard, Life Wedgwood, I. 107. The Cratemen packed their wares, as they came from the oven, into crates which swung on either side their sorry beasts.
