hawker

plural hawkers

1. A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.

   The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

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   First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese.

   2011 May 28, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies

2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
3. SingaporeA seller of food in a hawker centre.

plural hawkers

1. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.

plural Hawkers

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation.
2. countableuncountableA suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.
3. countableuncountableA town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.