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

A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

A peddler; a hawker.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. Mayhew.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

g ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.