n. A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods.
n. A type of dragonfly pertaining to the Aeshnidae family.
n. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
verb-intransitive. To sell goods by outcry in the street.
n. A falconer.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who hawks, or pursues the sport of hawking; a falconer.
n. A sloop-rigged vessel.
n. One who offers goods for sale by outcry in the street; one who travels about selling small wares; a peddler; a packman.
To play the hawker; peddle.
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n. a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
n. someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
Word Usage
"Such men have generally arrived at the dignity of a pack-horse – no unmixed benefit in the eyes of people driving, since most of the country horses are reduced to frenzy by the sight of the lean screw with his immense white pack – the hawker is merciless to his horse – led by the "black" man in flapping clothes and gay turban."