simple past tense and past participle of merchant

A surname.

(UK, colloquial) One who enjoys winding others up in the sense of making fun of them or playing practical jokes.

(historical) A late-medieval organiser of trading expeditions, especially one belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers.

Quality of being merchantable.

(slang) One who charges excessively high prices.

A tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.

A purveyor of sleaze; one who sells immoral material

a fleet of merchant ships, calculated either on a country-by-country basis, or on a global basis.

plural of merchant fleet