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hawker

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hawk·er  (hôkr)
n.
One who sells goods aggressively, especially by calling out.

[Middle English hauker, probably from Middle Low German höker, from hken, to peddle, bend, bear on the back.]

hawker1
n
(Business / Commerce) a person who travels from place to place selling goods
[probably from Middle Low German hōker, from hōken to peddle; see huckster]

hawker2
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Falconry) a person who hunts with hawks, falcons, etc.
[Old English hafecere; see hawk1, -er1]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hawkerhawker - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
chapman - archaic term for an itinerant peddler
cheapjack - a peddler of inferior goods
crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
muffin man - formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins
sandboy - a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'
marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
transmigrante - a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell
2.hawkerhawker - a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
hunter, huntsman - someone who hunts game

hawker
noun pedlar, tout, vendor, travelling salesman, crier, huckster, barrow boy (Brit.), door-to-door salesman It was a visitor and not a hawker or tramp at the door.
Translations
hawker [ˈhɔːkəʳ] Nvendedor(a) m/f ambulante
hawker [ˈhɔːkər] ncolporteur/euse m/f
hawker
n
(= hunter)Falkner(in) m(f)
(= pedlar, door-to-door) → Hausierer(in) m(f); (in street) → Straßenhändler(in) m(f); (at market) → Marktschreier(in) m(f)
hawker [ˈhɔːkəʳ] nvenditore/trice ambulante
hawker [ˈhɔːkəʳ] nvenditore/trice ambulante


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The Australian chap did know that Hawker wanted the coin.
Then he lit a cigarette and smoked it in ruminant manner; eventually he took out a notebook and wrote down various phrases, numbering and renumbering them till they stood in the following order: "(1) Squire Hawker disliked his first wife.
All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.
 
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