different between falconer vs hawker

English

Etymology

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?l.k?n.?(?)/, /?f??k.n?(?)/, and similar variations
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fælk?n?/

Noun

falconer (plural falconers)

1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

Synonyms

• hawker

Related terms

• falconry

Translations

References

• falconer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Florance

Old French

Alternative forms

• fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
• fauconier
• fauconnier

Etymology

falcon +? -er.

Noun

falconer m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)

1. (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)

Descendants

• ? English: falconer
• French: fauconnier

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle Low German hoker.

Noun

hawker (plural hawkers)

1. A peddler, huckster, who travels about to sell easily transportable goods.
2. Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• hawker (dragonfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

hawk +? -er.

Noun

hawker (plural hawkers)

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

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967