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Definition of peddle : 1. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
2. To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
3. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

Synonyms:

tilt, invent, haggle, sell, merchant, deliver, push, lurch, huckster, monger, merchandise, toss, cant, manufacture, move, set up, concoct, gear, flip, vend, incline, deceive, clear the throat, stock, lie, launch, slope, market, higgle, bend the truth, handle, hawk, chaffer, trade, auction, make up, shift, carry, deal, retail, sky, misspeak, slant, cant over, fabricate, pitch, mislead

Usage examples:

• Portuguese children from " up Harniss way" sometimes called to peddle huckleberries, but this child was no " Portugee." - "Cy Whittaker's Place", Joseph C. Lincoln.
• That's honest sweetenin', remarked the Trapper with decided emphasis; and that is more'n ye can say of the sugar of the settlements, leastwise ef a man can jedge by the stuff they peddle at the clearin'. - "How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas", W. H. H. Murray.
• As they stood watching Calvin peddle his bills the convention saw what he was doing. - "In the Heart of a Fool", William Allen White.