n. [ From Hack to cut. ] A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster, D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h&unr_;ka; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf. Hawk to offer for sale. ]
v. i.
n. The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A huckster. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. hukstere, hukster, OD. heukster, D. heuker; akin to D. huiken to stoop, bend, OD. huycken, huken, G. hocken, to squat, Icel. h&unr_;ka; -- the peddler being named from his stooping under the load on his back. Cf. Hawk to offer for sale. ]
v. i.
n. The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A huckster. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]