Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the streets of London filled with street vendors, stimulating intense competition between them. To stand out amid the crowd, street vendors began to develop distinctive, melodic cries.
Whether stationary or mobile, hawkers often advertise by loud street cries or chants, and conduct banter with customers, to attract attention and enhance sales.
So, the child wishes to be a hawker where he can happily sell the bangles on the road by shouting without any stress of going to school on time and coming back home.
Watchmen were organised groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, and recovery of stolen goods.
Hawkers cry foul over exclusion near Kasarani Stadium despite economic hopes
Why is hawker called hawker?
Historical. A word having various local uses: chiefly denoting a man who does jobs with his horse and cart; a carrier; a hawker or cadger with horse and cart… A person who goes from place to place selling goods, or who cries them in the street.
countable noun. You can use hawker to refer to a person who tries to sell things by calling at people's homes or standing in the street, especially when you do not approve of this activity. [disapproval]
The new rules are designed to balance the livelihoods of vendors with the need for smooth traffic flow, public safety, and urban order. According to officials, hawkers operating without valid licenses or encroaching upon key public spaces will face immediate penalties and potential eviction.
The occupation of hawker was common in Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries, and many hawkers were self-employed. However, due to the itinerant nature of the work, hawkers were often viewed with a mix of suspicion. This was because they were also known as travellers or gypsies, terms used at the time.
Slang. a cowardly or fearful person. a young or inexperienced person, especially a young girl. petty details or tasks. unnecessary discipline or regulations.
What did the child say about the hawker in the street?
The poet (child) says that the hawker lives his life freely. He does not hurry, he has no road to take and no place to go. He is not bound to return back to home. Thus he enjoys his life.
He observes that the hawker has no reason to hurry; there is no fixed road he must take, no definite route he must go to and no allocated time to return home.
(II) According to the extract, the hawker's routine was quite flexible. He was never in a hurry, could take any road and go anywhere he wished, with no specific place to reach or time to come back home.
Although the words costermonger, hawker and pedlar were used interchangeably, the costermonger or hawker was, technically speaking, someone who sold his wares by crying them out in the street. The pedlar travelled the countryside with his wares, visiting houses along the way to sell them.
As the oldest building standing on this strip of land, Lau Pa Sat stands today as a graceful symbol of resilience and continuity. Singapore's hawker culture originated from our immigrant forefathers. They brought along a wide range of culinary specialties from their homelands.
Hawkers were travelling salesmen who went from town to town carrying and selling wares from socks to tobacco. They had an important role in sustaining South Australia's outback settlements by connecting the country to the city.
The speaker is resentful that he has to go to bed. He thinks that the watchman never goes to bed in his life. Hence, he wishes to become a watchman and walk up and down in the dark street at night, having fun chasing the shadows with his lantern.
Every day I meet the hawker crying, “Bangles, crystal bangles!” There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no. road he must take, no place he must go to, no. time when he must come home.
What is the meaning of the poem vocation by Rabindranath Tagore?
The poem describes a child's envy of different occupations and desire for freedom. In the mornings, the child sees a hawker selling bangles freely without restrictions. In the afternoon, the child sees a gardener digging happily without punishment.
4. (i) What happened to the crow in the end? Ans: In the end the crow had been flung for nearly twenty feet across the garden. It happened due to the blow from the cobra's snout.
The child wishes to be the hawker as he is in no hurry. He likes that the hawker can go wherever he wants to and take any road he desires. He also believes that the hawker has no fixed time to go home. Nobody scolds a gardener for getting baked in the sun or soiling his clothes.
Sixty-nine is a common nickname for when sexual partners give each other oral stimulation at the same time. The nickname refers to the positions of the bodies fitting together like the shape of the number 69.
