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
You didn’t know I could chaffer Latin with the best of ’em, did you?
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
We do not bargain and chaffer over our feelings, Hester and I. Surely you mistake, and stir storms in teacups.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
He could not chaffer for terms with the tailor.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
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