What's the difference between hawker and hawser?

Hawker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
  • (v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.
  • (n.) A falconer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hawkers say Christmas time, when westerners flock to offload clothes to charity shops, brings in the biggest bales.
  • (2) Rudd's replacement, according to the veteran Labor campaign strategist Bruce Hawker, saw Labor's vote collapse: "Now, if an election was held tomorrow, Labor would lose 30 seats," he said.
  • (3) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
  • (4) Hawker, like Crosby, also has a range of commercial and public sector clients.
  • (5) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
  • (6) Hawker and Crosby have been longstanding rivals in Australia and according to one insider "are able to guess what the other guy is going to think before he thinks it".
  • (7) Compared with control subjects in identical classes, the hawkers were on the average 2 years older in age, were of poorer physique, and had lower hemoglobin values.
  • (8) No Tesco executives will ever board the jet, as he has put it up for sale – along with the rest of the Tesco fleet, which includes a Hawker 800 and two Cessna Citations.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Further footage has emerged showing the Hawker Hunter jet crashing onto the A27 in Shoreham, West Sussex after it failed to pull out of a loop manoeuvre However, Learmount said that safety at airshows was vigorously controlled and fatalities involving people other than pilots are extremely rare.
  • (10) People will still travel halfway across the country on their own dime to hear him speak, and hawkers still sell T-shirts at his events.
  • (11) Perplexed at the sight of hawkers on a highway, I strain to see what they are trying to sell me.
  • (12) I think it's up to the Labor party to get behind the leader,"  Bruce Hawker, longtime Labor strategist and the man who ran Rudd's challenge against Gillard last year, told ABC TV.
  • (13) Speaking on Sky News, Bruce Hawker – the man who orchestrated Kevin Rudd’s last leadership challenge – urged Rudd to stand in the ballot.
  • (14) Memories of the Conchords’ nearby flat at 41 Hawker Street provided the inspiration.
  • (15) Chantelle Kanimo, an 18-year-old hawker, said young Kenyans would not fight again.
  • (16) While footage of the Shoreham crash suggests casualties may have included people watching unofficially from the roadside, the Hawker crashed well away from the show’s crowd.
  • (17) (Hopefully Bishop can avoid the boilover that happened the last time she sought the job, in 2004 .. when she lost out to the Victorian MP, David Hawker.
  • (18) In a blogpost , Hawker wrote: "Cameron now lacks authenticity – his early centrist rhetoric bears no resemblance to the austerity drive he has mounted.
  • (19) Undeterred by the small army of security, several hundred cheery visitors had massed at the cathedral barriers by 6am, some wearing brightly colored shirts labeled by their parish, others lining up to buy Vatican flags from hawkers, and a few giving change to the homeless people who wandered near the edges.
  • (20) Such is the snail's pace of morning traffic that hawkers patrol the queues selling socks and phone chargers, McVitie's digestives and shaving kits.

Hawser


Definition:

  • (n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A crane tried to pull them over but the crane and its steel hawser buckled, not the Towers.