chaffer

UK /ˈtʃæfə/ US /ˈtʃæfə/
noun 4verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To haggle or barter.

To chaffer for preferment with his gold.

Walter declined the invitation, precisely because he wanted a dinner. He was, also, conscious that he had made a very bad bargain; but how could he chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages which were the very outpourings of his heart?

2

To buy.

3

To talk much and idly; to chatter.

The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the Cambridgeshire.

noun

1

Bargaining; merchandise.

vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings

2

A person's mouth.

Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.

noun

1

The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.

2

A person who or thing that chaffs.

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