DCHP-1 Online
storekeeper 
1 † n. the owner of a store or shop.
- 1834 (1926) The first is confined almost entirely to storekeepers and married men in old and well settled townships. . . .
- 1836 (1926) The storekeeper in Canada holds a very different rank from the shopkeeper of the English village. The storekeepers are the merchants and bankers of the places in which they reside.
2 n. the man in charge of a fur company ' s trading post.
See also: trader (def. 3)
- 1856 This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .
- 1923 I tell you, those H.B. storekeepers don't have an easy time of it.
- 1966 He wonders what happened to the storekeeper who used to help him with anything he wanted, especially nets, shells.
- 1834 (1926) The first is confined almost entirely to storekeepers and married men in old and well settled townships. . . .