Synonyms:
vending, peddling, hawking, vendition
Meaning: the act of selling goods for a living
Synonyms:
Hawking, Stephen_Hawking, Stephen_William_Hawking
Meaning: English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
Usage examples
They tried not to let each other see how unhappy they were, and pretended to take pleasure in hunting and hawking and all sorts of other sports; but at length the king could bear it no longer, and declared that he must go and visit the furthest corners of his kingdom, and that it would be many months before he should return to his capital.
In giving the senate an account of his mission, one of the ambassadors, Dominic of Treviso, drew the following portrait of Louis XII.: "The king is in stature tall and thin, and temperate in eating, taking scarcely anything but boiled beef; he is by nature miserly and retentive; his great pleasure is hawking; from September to April he hawks.