HAWKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawking mean? 

• HAWKING (noun)
  The noun HAWKING has 2 senses:

1. English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)

2. the act of selling goods for a living

  Familiarity information: HAWKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hawking; Stephen Hawking; Stephen William Hawking

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of selling goods for a living

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hawking; peddling; vending; vendition

Hypernyms ("hawking" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Derivation:

hawk (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

 Context examples 

Then hey for home, and no more hawking to-day!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The British astronomer Stephen Hawking has famously compared crossing this boundary to going over Niagra Falls in a canoe: if you are above the falls, it is still possible to escape if you paddle hard enough.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I would, Lady Tiphaine, cried the Lady Rochefort, that you would use your power to tell me what hath befallen my golden bracelet which I wore when hawking upon the second Sunday of Advent, and have never set eyes upon since.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)