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Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
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hawker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A familiar street hawker , usually shifting lighters at two for a pound was offering three for a pound. ▪ Both men wore garlands of wild jasmine, sold to them by child hawkers who worked the front of the Continental. ▪ Licensed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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.
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Hawker or Hawkers may refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler , pedlar , packman , pitchman ] a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry [syn: falconer ]
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.