a hawker of indecent literature.

A maker or seller of ballads; (spec., in depreciative use) one who writes or deals in cheap or slanderous verse.

one who robs on land, a highwayman; †also, a literary pirate.

A woman who sells or distributes books or other printed material; a female bookseller; spec. (a) a female hawker or distributor of newspapers…

A hawker or distributor of pamphlets, news-sheets, etc.; esp. a female one. See also mercury woman n. at compounds 2. Now historical.

second-hand bookseller, second-hand clothier, etc.: one dealing in second-hand goods. So second-hand bookselling, second-hand bookstall, second-hand…

(a) a keeper of a book-stall; (b) a man who contracts for and works a stall in a coal-mine; also each of a company of men associated for that purpose.

a person who or agency which sells books by auction.

one who deals in (literary) scraps.

A hawker of books, newspapers, etc. esp. (in English use) one employed by a society to travel about and sell or distribute Bibles and religious…

A person whose work relates to or profits from deaths; spec. (a) an undertaker; (b) an obituary writer for a newspaper; (c) a seller of dying…

(a) (U.S. and Canadian) a boy selling newspapers, etc., on a railway train; (b) Coal Mining a boy accompanying a train in a mine to assist with its…

one who hawked the ‘last dying speeches’ of criminals.

A seller of newspapers in the street who calls out sensational news. Obsolete. rare.

(a) a person who looks out (in various senses of to look out at look, v. phrasal verbs 1); (b) (in the book trade) a person who locates and…