subs. (old: now recognized).—A pedlar.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HAWKERS. Retail News-Sellers.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HAWKERS, licensed itinerant retailers of different commodities, called also pedlars; likewise the sellers of newspapers.
