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Chaffer   Listen
verb
Chaffer  v. t.  
1.
To buy or sell; to trade in. "He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set."
2.
To exchange; to bandy, as words.





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"Chaffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... bargain at all? You have the strength, the courage, the brains—why chaffer when you have but to strike once to win all? You stand between Boris and Ulick; crush them both in a single embrace and take their ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... Moreover, in those days shall betide much chaffering for wares between man and man, and country and country; and the lords shall note that if there were less corn and less men on their lands there would be more sheep, that is to say more wool for chaffer, and that thereof they should have abundantly more than aforetime; since all the land they own, and it pays them quit-rent or service, save here and there a croft or a close of a yeoman; and all this might grow wool for them to sell to the Easterlings. Then shall ...
— A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson • William Morris


Words linked to "Chaffer" :   chew the fat, claver, chat, confab, bargain, beat down, shmoose, schmooze, haggle, confabulate, visit, converse, higgle, gossip, chatter, shmooze, jawbone, bargain down, natter


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