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
Ah! honest love would make no chaffer thus!
From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by George Francis Dawson
"Keep your chaffer still, won't 'ee!" snarled the other.
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
He could not chaffer for terms with the tailor.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
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
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