Hypertext Webster Gateway: "haggle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Haggling}.] [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.
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes
to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. i.
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to
chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of
blood. --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Haggle \Hag"gle\, n.
The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
haggle
n : an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: {haggling},
{wrangle}, {wrangling}]
v : wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's
not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {higgle}, {chaffer},
{huckster}]
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