Definition of "pedlar"

After a time she touched the bell, with great caution; the cook appeared, to whom she gave a slip of paper, on which the woman vanished, leaving the little pedlar of small wares standing on the steps, where she had already placed her basket,...

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 162

I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows.

1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208