boothmen

Noun

boothman (plural boothmen)

1. (rare) One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
   • A little later a man came running and he called urgently for Leif Ossursson, bade him go in haste to Gilli lawspeaker's booth: — Sigurd Thorlaksson ran in through the doorflap there and he wounded one of his boothmen to the death.1994, George Johnston, Thrand of Gotu: two Icelandic sagas from the Flat Island book, page 108
2. (archaic, dialectal) A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
   • He was not a native of Newcastle, but bad apparently come from the country in youth to serve his apprenticeship as a boothman, or corn merchant; had gone, when out of his time, to gain experience of commercial life in Germany; and […]1890, Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, volume 4, page 540
3. A projectionist at a movie theater.
   • Two veteran eastern Connecticut boothmen died recently: Irwin Dawley, 55, projectionist at the Stanley Warner Garde, […]1958, Motion Picture Herald, volumes 212-213, page 23