CHAFFER

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

One who chaffs.

2.
n.

Bargaining; merchandise. [Obs.] Holished.

3.
v.

To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden.

4.
v.

To talk much and idly; to chatter. Trench.

5.
v.

To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser.

6.
v.

To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

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