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In some senses, chaffer is marked as informal, obsolete, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
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?
To buy.
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
Bargaining; merchandise.
vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings
A person's mouth.
Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
noun
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.
A person who or thing that chaffs.