振ふり売うり

noun

street vendor; hawker; hawking goods

Historical term for a peddler who carried wares in baskets suspended from a shoulder pole, or the act of selling goods this way. The person and the activity are closely related.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、振ふり売うりが町まちを歩あるき回まわって魚さかなや野や菜さいを売うっていた。

  In the Edo period, street vendors walked around town selling fish and vegetables.

• この絵えには、天てん秤びん棒ぼうを担かついだ振ふり売うりの姿すがたが描えがかれている。

  This picture depicts a hawker carrying a balancing pole.