noun
definition
A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods.
definition
Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
Examples of hawker in a Sentence
A large dragonfly, possibly the Southern Hawker was spotted.
There were a large number of banded demoiselles, and several hawker dragonflies.
A wandering hawker unfurls dazzling tie-dyed sheets and vivid printed cloth.
An unexpected encounter with a southern hawker did that for me this weekend.
A number of dragonfly species use the pools including the Norfolk and common hawker.
Migrant hawker and black-tailed skimmer are two of the dragonflies commonly recorded and regularly seen butterflies include small copper, common blue and brimstone.
My mother got him as a kitten of a hawker (gypsy or tinker) who was selling tea towels and other household goods.
Few dragonflies, but the common one was a hawker with a royal blue body and apple green thorax and eyes.
His father, Jacob Stephen Hawker, was at that time a doctor, but afterwards curate and vicar of Stratton, Cornwall.
Singapore's popular hawker stalls are actually serving up a melting pot of culinary delights forged by Singapore's unique multi-cultural heritage.
Maggie Dickson was a fish hawker who left Edinburgh in 1723 after being deserted by her husband.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to see service with the RAF and the first capable of exceeding 300 mph.
The tower is without bells, and the tradition that a ship bearing a peal hither was wrecked within sight of the harbour, and that the lost bells may still be heard to toll beneath the waves, has been made famous by a ballad of the Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Moorwinstow.
Hawker described the bulk of his parishioners as a "mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters of various hues."
The only one of these that need be noticed is that which provides that after the market is opened for public use every person, other than a licensed hawker, who shall sell or expose for sale in any place within the district, except in his own dwelling-place or shop, any articles in respect of which tolls are authorized to be taken shall be liable to a penalty.
In 1848, while making a tour in Cornwall, Tennyson met Robert Stephen Hawker of Morwenstow, with whom he seems - but the evidence is uncertain - to have talked about King Arthur, and to have resumed his intention of writing an epic on that theme.