verb
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To hunt with a hawk.
definition
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
example
to hawk at flies
verb
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To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
example
The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.
verb
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To cough up something from one's throat.
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To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.
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Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
adjective
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Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
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Spotted, streaked
Examples of hawked in a Sentence
Grub Street elegies on the almanac maker were hawked about London.
Some of them hawked their baskets around Buxton and sold door-to-door.
His overlord claimed to dispose of his crown, and hawked it about among the princes of the West.
Although owner Ken Sherman claims to have lost four inches off his waist, that old myth of abdominal training somehow burning off waist fat still doesn't hold water regardless of the product being hawked.
In Ventose and Germinal he published, under the nom de plume of "Lalande, soldat de la patrie," a new paper, the Eclaireur du peuple, ou le defenseur de vingi-cinq millions d'opprimes, which was hawked clandestinely from group to group in the streets of Paris.
And, in fact, Bilibin's witticisms were hawked about in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters considered important.