chaffer

How To Use chaffer In A Sentence

• Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
• Pasgen allowed himself to be divested of three of the amulets he had marked because to fail to chaffer would also mark him as unusual; however, he was growing impatient and finally made as if to throw down the amulets he was holding and walk away. Ill Met By Moonlight
• The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter.
• Ali Shar, “Begone, without more chaffer and chatter; there is nothing in the house.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The electronic communication has forged bonds among staff and third-grade families that are the strongest at Logan, said Principal Francine Schaffer.
• Black folks chaffered and bargained with endless talk over plaintains, banana beer, and hammered brass ornaments. Conan of Cimmeria
• “As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises,” says Dr. Schaffer. Unusual Things to Teach Your Body | Impact Lab
• Noa; my missus did not loike me to chaffer much with neighbour Joplin, for she was but a bad 'un, -- pretty fease, too. Lucretia — Volume 06
• I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars
• The chaffery wheele in the west side, old and decayed, 3lb to repaire it. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean