chaffer
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There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a business chaffer, and the affair was virtually settled.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
Ah! honest love would make no chaffer thus!
From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by George Francis Dawson
Somehow, he and Thisbe drift off together, and Mamma, very portly and very voluble, is left to chaffer and sort and select alone.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
“What do ye chaffer about?” cried Lady Lisle, in her old sharp manner.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
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