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Haggle

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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