Crossword clues for hawker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hawker \Hawk"er\, n. [Cf. AS. hafecere. See 1st Hawk.] A falconer.
Hawker \Hawk"er\ (h[add]k"[~e]r), n.
One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a
peddler or a packman.
--Swift.
Hawker \Hawk"er\, v. i.
To sell goods by outcry in the street. [Obs.]
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods. 2 Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae. Etymology 2
n. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hawker or Hawkers may refer to:
A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with peddler or costermonger. In most places where the term is used, a hawker sells inexpensive items, handicrafts or food items. Whether stationary or mobile, hawkers often advertise by loud street cries or chants, and conduct banter with customers, so to attract attention and enhance sales.
When accompanied by a demonstration and/or detailed explanation of the product, the hawker is sometimes referred to as a demonstrator or pitchman.
Hawker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1938
- David Hawker (born 1949) member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1983
- Edward Hawker (1782–1860), British naval officer
- George Charles Hawker (1818–1895), South Australian politician and pastoralist
- Harry Hawker (1889–1921), founder of Hawker Aviation
- Lanoe Hawker (VC, DSO) (1890–1916), World War I English fighter pilot
- Lesley Hawker, Canadian figure skater
- Lindsay Hawker (1984–2007), British murder victim
- Mike Hawker (born 1954), American Republican politician
- Patience Hawker (1900–1994), co-founder of Stawell School for girls in South Australia
- Robert Hawker (1753–1827), Devonian vicar of the Anglican Church and noted preacher
- Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), clergyman, writer and eccentric
- Thomas Hawker (died 1722), English portrait painter
- Wilfred Hawker (1955-1982), Surinamese sergeant-major executed by the Surinamese government
Usage examples of "hawker".
And in the teashop they began to appreciate the true flavor of Bottommost as the calls of the hawkers, the bells in the Birders House, and the soft light blended into music.
Lying on the sopha in our sitting-room, I slept badly on my first night in Town for the noises were so different from those I was used to : the rattle and rumble of carriages, the clatter of hooves on the cobbles, the shouts of the watchmen calling the hours and then at first light the cries of hawkers and the crash of church bells.
Hawkers with trays around their necks were selling rice-cakes, yakitori, baked yams, steamed buns, and alcoholic drinks.
An infantryman still aboard his grounded skimmer caught the shimmer of a Molt tele porting in along the vector for which Hawker had warned.
The yellow figures which changed only to reflect the position of the moving jeep were now replaced by a nervous flickering from that yellow to the violet which was its optical reciprocal, giving Lieutenant Hawker the location at which a Molt warrior was about to appear in the near vicinity.
Lieutenant Hawker, reaching out with a left hand that seemed large enough to encircle the infant Molt which he took from Bourne.
Lieutenant Hawker, holding the Molt, stepped from the jeep and the tunnel mouth, his gun hand raised as if he were hailing a cab in a liberty port.
It rang there, a nervous keening that complemented the cries of the infant Molt, dumped without ceremony on the drivers seat when Hawker had gotten into the jeep.
Lieutenant Hawker, emotionless no longer as his instruments warned him of the Molt blurring out of the air through which Truck Six had just driven.
Hawker fired and the Molt sagged in on himself, spitted on a trio of amber tracks: smoke concealed the normal cyan flash of the power gun but shock waves from the superheated air made their own mark on the brush of high-frequency sound.
Hawker and Bourne had their backs to the stone to one side of the entranceway, too close together for a Molt to attempt to teleport between them but still giving their gun hands adequate clearance.
They bought something from every hawker they passed, meat pasties, black peas, roasted chestnuts, and hot cross buns.
Hawker said as he ported his weapon again, making no apology for aiming it toward a tele porting autochthon, even one in Bournes lap.
Hawker must have made a mistake that would give a clear shot to the tele porting autochthon.
From his brother Cole he had learned that the Missouri bushwhackers could behave every bit as monstrously as the jay hawkers And a Southern boy called Little Archie Clements had gone around doing a fair bit of scalping in his day.