hawker

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Middle Low German hoker.

noun

1. A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
   The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
   First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese. May 2011, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies
2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.

noun

1. Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.