hawker

noun

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.”

   “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.”

2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
3. (Singapore)A seller of food in a hawker centre.
4. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.

name

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