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
Sometimes a particular "lot" will attract the attention of a spectator, and he will chaffer about it for a while; but the sales do not often appear to be very brisk.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
The hubbub and chaffer of it all went on the day long.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
I wisht I'd 'a' had him runnin' the 'Guzzuh' instead of that little chicken-breasted chaffer they three-shelled on to me in Los Angeles.
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
I will not chaffer with him; he may have as much as he asks.
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
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