Word Meanings - HAWKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

HUCKSTERER
A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.
SHOPMAN
1. A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden. 2. One who serves in a shop; a salesman. 3. One who works in a shop or a factory.
TRADER
1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
HUCKSTER
akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under 1. A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift. 2. A mean, trickish
HAWKER
One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
HUCKSTERAGE
The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.
SOLE TRADER
A feme sole trader.
JAYHAWKER
A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. Note:
PEDLAR; PEDLER
See PEDDLER