Middleman

An agent between two parties, an intermediary who performs the office of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land-owner and tenant, etc.

Southack v. Lane, 32 Misc. Rep. 141, 65 N Y. Supp. 629; Synnott v. Sbaughnessy, 2 Idaho, 122, 7 Pac. 89.

A middleman, in Ireland, is a person who takes land in large tracts from the proprietors, and then rents it out to the peasantry in small portions at a greatly enhanced price, Wharton.