Chaffer

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Merchandise; wares; goods; traffic.
  • noun. Bargaining; haggling in buying and selling.
  • noun. One who employs chaff or light raillery.
  • To buy or sell; trade or deal in.
  • To exchange; bandy.
  • To talk much and idly; chatter: as, “the chaffering sparrow,”
  • noun. Same as chafer, 4.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Bargaining; merchandise.
  • noun. One who chaffs.
  • intransitive verb. To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
  • intransitive verb. To talk much and idly; to chatter.
  • transitive verb. To buy or sell; to trade in.
  • transitive verb. To exchange; to bandy, as words.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
  • verb. To haggle or barter.
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  • verb. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
  • verb. talk socially without exchanging too much information
  • Word Usage
    "As the "chaffer" shuffled off, Buck Bradley began to hum:"
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