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
He began to chaffer and bargain with himself, and availed himself of the expedient which the weak and dishonest are always ready to employ,--he carried the war into the enemy's camp.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
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
It is cognate with cheap, chaffer, and Ger. kaufen, to buy, and probably comes from Lat. caupo, tavern keeper.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Ah! honest love would make no chaffer thus!
From Myra's Well A Tale of All-Hallow-E'en by George Francis Dawson
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