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Definition of Hawkers
1. hawker [n] - See also: hawker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkers
Literary usage of Hawkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1868)
"hawkers AND PEDDLERS.1 §601. IN Jacob's Law Dictionary we have the following: "
hawkers. Those deceitful fellows who went from place to place, ..."
2. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"They fill the stage, young men and women, older people, beggars, hawkers, children.
Flavius and Marullus keep R and RC; the rest of the crowd mostly L and ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Under a township ordinance, requiring "hawkers, peddlers, and itinerant venders
of merchandise" to take out a license, an agent of a merchant In another ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"In England,— from an early date, statutes, more or less modified from time to
time, have provided for the licensing of hawkers and peddlers, ..."
5. Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: (Several by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1816)
"Mr. Pulteney moved for leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend so much of
the act respecting the hawkers and pedlars as restrains them from exposing ..."
6. Thomas' Town Officer: A Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to by Dwight Foster, James E. Estabrook (1856)
"DUTIES OF SELECTMEN, CONCERNING -hawkers AND PEDLARS- 1* hawkers, pedlars, petty
chapmen, and other itinerant dealers, to be licensed. 2. ..."
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