HAGGLED

Verb

haggled

simple past tense and past participle of haggle

Source: Wiktionary


HAGGLE

Hag"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling.] Etym: [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.]

Definition: 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.

Hag"gle, v. i.

Definition: 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.

Hag"gle, n.

Definition: The act or process of haggling. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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