hawking

Verb (1)

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
   • To hawke, or els to hunt
     From the auter to the funtc. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–10
2. (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
   • to hawk at flies

Verb (2)

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
   • The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.

   Synonyms:

   tout

Verb (3)

hawk (third-person singular simple present hawks, present participle hawking, simple past and past participle hawked)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
   • to hawk a loogie
2. (intransitive, transitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
   • Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.

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