Synonyms:
auctioneer
Meaning: an agent who conducts an auction
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
auction, auction_off, auctioneer
Meaning: sell at an auction
Usage examples
Like a damp-handed auctioneer
A licensed auctioneer was brought, and the sale commenced.
But before her eyes were visions of her dismantled home, in her ears was the roar of voices clamouring for her cherished possessions,--a sickening roar, broken, now and then, by the hollow tap of the auctioneer's cruel hammer.
But, slowly as they went, they came within sight of the house, at last, with its quaint gables, and many latticed windows, and the blue smoke curling up from its twisted chimneys,--smiling and placid as though, in all this great world, there were no such thing to be found as--an auctioneer's hammer.