Middle English Dictionary Entry
hauking ger.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | hauking ger.(2) Also haukin, hokking. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Selling goods in places other than one's shop or a market, peddling goods from house to house; (b) the privilege of collecting fines from hawkers.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.12079 : Item, pur ceo que plusours gentz voisount parmy la citee de meson en meson en manere de haukyng ovesquez cardes nient covenablement faitz, en deceipt du poeple, ordeigne est,[etc.].
- (?c1400) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120151 : Diverses choses et overaignes de mesme lartifice ount estez overez nounduement et utterez par la manere de haukyng.
- (1463) Let.Bk.Lond.L (Gldh LetBk L)33 : Divers foreigns..usen to leve their best frutes in their ynnes..and with the werst frute therof gone hokkyng a boute from strete to strete..within the said Cite.
- (1479-80) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120135 : For as much as diverse and much evill ware..be sold..in greit dissate and hurt of the common people, in haukyng of such ware as to thare said craft belongeth..and not seirched.
b
- (1437) in Rec.B.Nottingham 2162 : Alexander Mylngate et Robertus Coo..queruntur de Johanne Dorham..et Ricardo Boney, seniore, de placito debiti iij s. iiij d. pro quadam firma vocata hawkyn' sic eis tempore ballivae suae dimissa.