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Chaffer   Listen
noun
Chaffer  n.  One who chaffs.


Chaffer  n.  Bargaining; merchandise. (Obs.)


verb
Chaffer  v. t.  
1.
To buy or sell; to trade in. "He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set."
2.
To exchange; to bandy, as words.


Chaffer  v. i.  (past & past part. chaffered; pres. part. chaffering)  
1.
To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. "To chaffer for preferments with his gold."
2.
To talk much and idly; to chatter.





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"Chaffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... And all the host sat down to watch you twain Do battle, which should have me. For my part, They took me forth to watch; as in the mart A heifer feels the giver of the feast Pinch in her flank, and hears the chaffer twist This way and that for so much fat or lean— Even so was I, a queen, child of a queen." She bit her lip until the blood ran free, And in her eyes he markt deep injury Scald as the salt tears welled; but "Listen yet," She said: "Ye ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... to the first, "see you this steed? Better horse never was ridden; but he is sorely spent, and we must make speed. Let me barter him with you for yonder stout palfrey. He is worth twice as much, but I cannot stop to chaffer—ay or ...
— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge
... did not loike me to chaffer much with neighbour Joplin, for she was but a bad 'un,—pretty fease, too. She lived agin the wogh [Anglice, wall] yonder, where you ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Saracens came to meet them, and they answered that they were merchants who led divers merchandise by many lands; and that they had the safe-conduct of princes and high barons, and that they might go into all lands surely, to seek chaffer ...
— Old French Romances • William Morris
... alone can bring about a peace. They keep on with the tricks and feints of a departed age. Both on the side of the Allies and on the side of the Germans the declarations of public policy remain childishly vague and disingenuous, childishly "diplomatic." They chaffer like happy imbeciles while civilization bleeds to death. It was perhaps to be expected. Few, if any, men of over five-and-forty completely readjust themselves to changed conditions, however novel and challenging the changes may be, and nearly all the leading figures in these ...
— In The Fourth Year - Anticipations of a World Peace (1918) • H.G. Wells


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