haukyng2 (s.xiv)

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haukyng2 (s.xiv)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: ; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  hawk v.2 (hawking n.2 and a.2); MED:  hauking ger.2; DMLBS: ]
 
M.E.

The word is Middle English, of Middle Low German origin (from hocken, i.e. either ‘to carry on one’s back’ or ‘to sit, squat’ – see OED hawker n.2), but its earliest attestations are found in the below Anglo-Norman contexts (c.1400).

s.

1merch.hawking, peddling, offering goods for sale in the street
( s.xiv )  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, ordeigné est [...]  i 79
( c.1407 )  Et pur ceo que diverses choses et darrez (=merchandise) appurtenantz a la dit artifice ount estez retreé, et auxi diverses choses et overaignes de mesme l’artifice ount estez overez nounduement et utterez par la manere de haukyng, pur ceo ordeigné est que nully du dit artifice aleit ne voys par my la citee, en privetee n’en appiert, ové ascuns darrez appurtenantz a mesme l’artifice en manere de haukyng, sur la peyne avantdite a paier en la manere avantdit  i 151
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