hawker

UK /ˈhɔːkə/ US /ˈhɔkɚ/
noun 4name 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese.

2

Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.

3

A seller of food in a hawker centre.

noun

1

Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.

name

1

A surname originating as an occupation.

2

A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.

3

A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.

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