haggle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HAG'GLE, verb transitive To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York all haggled o'er, Comes to him where in gore he lay insteep'd. HAG'GLE, verb intransitive To be difficult in bargaining; to hesitate and cavil. [See Higgle.]
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