hawker

¹ American  

[haw-ker] / ˈhɔ kər /

noun

1. a person who hunts with hawks hawk or other birds of prey.

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hawker ² American  

[haw-ker] / ˈhɔ kər /

noun

1. a person who peddles or hawks wares by shouting their offerings in the street or going from door to door; peddler.

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hawker ¹ British  

/ ˈhɔːkə /

noun

1. a person who travels from place to place selling goods

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hawker ² British  

/ ˈhɔːkə /

noun

1. a person who hunts with hawks, falcons, etc

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Etymology

Origin of hawker¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hafecere. See hawk ¹, -er ¹

Origin of hawker²

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Middle Low German haker “retail dealer”; akin to Middle Dutch hac in same sense; huckster

Example Sentences

For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is France's last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.

From BBC

Most of his revenue now comes from wholesale customers – hawkers or those selling street-side snacks.

From BBC

Goma residents filled the streets a few miles from the border with Rwanda - commuters headed to work, hawkers sold goods by the roadside and taxi drivers scrambled to win customers.

From BBC

“Go back through the history of the past thousand years and you will find that nine-tenths of the popular idols of the world – have been hawkers of palpable nonsense.”

From Salon