hawker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)

   The hawker sold fruit from a barrow in the street.

2. 2
   noun

   A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.

   The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.

3. 3
   noun

   a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

   The hawker sold fruit from a barrow in the street.

4. 4
   noun

   Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.

   The hawker sold fruit from a barrow in the street.

Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.

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