单词 | hawker |
释义 | hawkern.1 One who hawks, or engages in the sport of hawking; one who tends or trains hawks; a falconer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconer > [noun] hawkera975 falconerc1386 a975 Canons of Edgar in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 258 We lærað þæt preost ne beo hunta, ne hafecere. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 225 Item, the same day my mastyr gaff to the hawkerys, xij. d. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. x. viii. 274 The hawkers and foulers when they have caught the foule, divide the bootie with the hawkes. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 269 Hassan Beg..enlisted the services of a professional hawker..so off we went with our falcon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hawkern.2 a. A man who goes from place to place selling his goods, or who cries them in the street. In modern use technically distinguished from pedlar: see quot. 1895. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar pedder1166 pedlar1307 dustyfoota1400 tranter1500 hawker1510 jagger?1518 jowter1550 pedder-coffec1550 pedderman1552 petty chapman1553 swadder1567 packman1571 merchant1572 swigman1575 chapman?1593 aginator1623 crier1727 duffer1735 Jew pedlar1743 fogger1800 Jew1803 box wallah1826 packie1832 cadger1840 jolter1841 pack-pedlar1859 knocker1934 doorstepper1976 machinga1993 1510 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 104 Pro correctione habenda de les Hawkers, iijs. iiijd. 1533 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 9 §6 Sundry euill disposed persons, which commonly beene called haukers..goe about from place to place within this Realme, vsing buying and selling of Brasse and Pewter. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 §3 No..couerlet-makers..shall..vse the said craft of haukynge, or go as haukers. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1432/4 A sort of loose and idle persons, called Hawkers, who do daily publish and sell seditious Books..contrary to Law. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 150. ⁋1 I heard the Hawkers with great Vehemence crying about a Paper. 1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 4 The rattling hawker vends thro' gaping streets. 1895 Daily News 19 Mar. 7/7 He saw defendant acting as a hawker..He asked him if he had a licence, when he produced a pedlar's licence..A hawker is a man who travels about selling goods with a horse and cart or van. A pedlar carries his goods himself..The cost of a pedlar's licence is 5s., and is granted by the police. Hawkers' licences are granted by the Inland Revenue, and cost 2l. b. A horse used in hawking goods. ΚΠ 1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) II. 18 On Pads, Hawkers, Hunters, on Higlers and Racers. Derivatives ˈhawker v. (intransitive) to act as a hawker. ΚΠ 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 230 [He] was Implacable, and Auker'd To all that Interlop'd, and Hawker'd. ˈhawkering adj. ΚΠ 1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 139 They are forc'd to ply For Jobs of hawkering Divinity. Draft additions March 2016 hawker centre n. Singapore English and Malaysian English a food market at which individual vendors sell cooked food from small stalls, with a shared seating area for customers. ΚΠ 1966 Straits Times (Singapore) 14 Oct. 18/1 Separate tenders are invited for any one or all of the following... Erection & Completion of..1 Block of 2-Storey Hawker Centre (162 Stalls). 1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 125/2 The cheapest and most fun place to dine in Singapore is in a hawker centre, where scores of stalls let you mix..and match good Asian dishes at really low prices. 2002 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 3 Aug. 6 For most of us, the daily makan routine consists of breakfast at the mamak stall, lunch at a hawker centre, back to the mamak's for tea..then home. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hawkern.3 Entomology. Any dragonfly whose flight behaviour is characterized by ‘hawking’ or patrolling a particular area; spec. a member of the family Aeshnidae. Cf. darter n. Additions 6. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Odonata > suborder Anisoptera > member of family Aeshnidae hawker1986 1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. xviii. 411 Those Libellulidae that capture their prey while hawking. 1926 R. J. Tillyard Insects Austral. & N.Z. ix. 83 Aeschnidae [sic]... This family contains the true hawking dragonflies.] 1937 C. Longfield Dragonflies Brit. Isles 38 Anisoptera. Hawker and darter dragon-flies. 1986 Encycl. Insects 26/2 Temperate hawkers spend 1–2 years as larvae, whereas some of their tropical counterparts can complete development in under 100 days. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a975n.21510n.31937 |
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