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Higgle v. i. (past & past part. higgled; pres. part. higgling)

To hawk or peddle provisions.

To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. "A person accustomed to higgle about taps." "To truck and higgle for a private good."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Higgle" Quotes from Famous Books

... unions by tiding the members over illness or unemployment. An unemployed journeyman, or one impoverished by illness, unless supported by his union is tempted to work below the union rate. A starving man cannot higgle over the conditions of employment. The unions recognize that in time of strike they must support the strikers. The establishment of out-of-work benefits is urged ...

— Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions • James B. Kennedy

... over," said they, "We'll take them, though they be only ten roubles; we don't wish to higgle ...

— The Story of Tim • Anonymous

... begins fulminating in a terrible manner on his womankind at Berlin, what we called his Female Parliament,—too much given to opposition courses at present. Intends to have his measures passed there, in defiance of opposition; straightway; and an end put to this inexpressible Double-Marriage higgle-haggle. Speed to him! we will say.—Three high Crises occur, three or even four, which can now without much detail be made intelligible to the patient reader: on the back of which we look for some catastrophe and finis ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle