Haggle

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled}
     (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Haggling} (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of
     Scot. hag, E. hack. See {Hack} to cut.]
     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.


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           Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,
           Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i.
     To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
     chaffer; to higgle.
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           Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
           blood.                                   --Walpole.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haggle \Hag"gle\, n.
     The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haggle
       n : an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: {haggling},
            {wrangle}, {wrangling}]
       v : wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
           not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {higgle}, {chaffer},
            {huckster}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggle":
     bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for,
     cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining,
     coming to terms, deal, dicker, dickering, dispute, drive a bargain,
     hack, hackle, haggling, higgle, higgling, horse-trade, huckster,
     jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, package bargaining,
     palter, pattern bargaining, quibble, slash, squabble, stickle,
     trade, underbid, wrangle