Meaning of Hawker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
2. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
3. A surname originating as an occupation.
   countable, uncountable
4. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
5. A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Charles Hawker.
   countable, uncountable
6. A seller of food in a hawker centre.
   Singapore
7. A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia, named after George Charles Hawker.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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