Definition of badger

What does the word badger mean?

• part of speech: verb transitive

  Bait like a badger, worry, tease.

• part of speech: noun

  (dial.) Hawker, esp. of provisions.

• part of speech: noun

  Grey-coated strong-jawed nocturnal hibernating plantigrade quadruped between weasels& bears; fishing-fly, & painting-brush, made of its hair; b.-baiting, -drawing, setting dogs to draw it from its burrow or a cask; b.-legged, with legs of unequal length (popular error). [English]