haggle

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
haggle
    n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
         {haggle}, {haggling}, {wrangle}, {wrangling}]
    v 1: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
         not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {haggle}, {higgle},
         {chaffer}, {huckster}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled}
   (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Haggling} (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of
   Scot. hag, E. hack. See {Hack} to cut.]
   To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or
   cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by
   cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
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         Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,
         Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i.
   To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
   chaffer; to higgle.
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         Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
         blood.                                   --Walpole.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Haggle \Hag"gle\, n.
   The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggle":
      bargain, bargaining, barter, beat down, bicker, bid, bid for,
      cavil, chaffer, chaffering, cheapen, collective bargaining,
      coming to terms, deal, dicker, dickering, dispute, drive a bargain,
      hack, hackle, haggling, higgle, higgling, horse-trade, huckster,
      jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, package bargaining,
      palter, pattern bargaining, quibble, slash, squabble, stickle,
      trade, underbid, wrangle
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