chapmanhood means the activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining.
Etymology
From Middle English chapmanhode, chapmanhede, equivalent to chapman + -hood.
noun
- The activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining.“Were it for chapmanhood or for disport,
No other message would they thither send,
But come themselves to Rome,
this is the end; […]”