dicker

mastery
/ˈdɪkə(ɹ)/verbnoun

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Which meaning of 'dicker' best matches its use in the sentence?

In the brilliant sparkle of the morning when everything that was not superlatively blue was superlatively green, I dickered with a man who was taking a party up the inlet that he should drop me off at the village I was headed for.