chaffer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To haggle or barter.

   • To chaffer for preferment with his gold.
   • While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.
2. 2

   To buy.

3. 3

   To talk much and idly

   To talk much and idly; to chatter.

   • The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.
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   1. 4

      Bargaining

      Bargaining; merchandise.

      • vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings
   2. 5

      A person's mouth.

      • Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
   3. 6

      The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

      • A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.
   4. 7

      A person who or thing that chaffs.

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