huckster
noun
a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
were huckstering
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past progressiveof huckster.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The young bloods of Scandinavia had newly established their Norse kingdom in Iceland, and were huckstering and sea roving about the Baltic and among the British Isles.
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine
