dicker

mastery
/ˈdɪkə(ɹ)/verbnoun

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

Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.