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A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods.
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Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
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Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
Examples of hawkers in a Sentence
However, much damage was done by inappropriate spectacles sold by hawkers.
We also saw brown hawkers with their attractive coppery wings hunting along the taller vegetation of the river bank.
This proved one of the most momentous steps taken in the history of South Africa, for the Indian population rapidly increased, the " free " Indians becoming market gardeners, farmers, hawkers, traders, and in time serious competitors with the whites.
In the East End and other poor quarters a large trade in second-hand clothing, flowers and vegetables, and many other commodities is carried on in the streets on movable stalls by costermongers and hawkers.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces; and many thousands of these articles were furnished by him to the hawkers.
The larger dragonflies, particularly brown, southern and migrant hawkers, patrol sheltered sections of Harperâs Brook.
This is a good time of year for dragonflies so look out for the larger, more spectacular hawkers.
These festive menus are available from 17 November to 24 December 2003 Based on the dishes of the street hawkers from South East Asia.
A curious street sight in Kashgar is presented by the hawkers of meat pies, pastry and sweetmeats, which they trundle about on hand-barrows just as their counterparts do in Europe; while the knife-grinder's cart, and the vegetable seller with his tray or basket on his head, recall exactly similar itinerant traders further west.
Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.
But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers--but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.