vend Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb sell or offer for sale from place to place
    monger; pitch; peddle; hawk; huckster.

WordNet

Vend transitive verb
Etymology
F. vendre, L. vendere, from venum dare; venus sale + dare to give. See 2d Venal, Date, time.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vended; present participle & verbal noun Vending
Definitions
  1. To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables. ✍ Vend differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter for commodities. Vend is used chiefly of wares, merchandise, or other small articles, not of lands and tenements.
Vend noun
Definitions
  1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  2. The total sales of coal from a colliery. Eng.

Webster 1913