Haggle: Definition and part of speech

Haggle

  1. n. The act or process of haggling.
  2. v. t. 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.
  3. v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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