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4 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: haggle n : an instance of intense bargaining [syn: {haggling}, {wrangle}, {wrangling}] v : bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: {higgle}, {chaffer}, {huckster}, {dicker}]
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