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chaffer
/ˈtʃæfə/
noun 4verb 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
damp, lightweight, other
VERB + CHAFFER
air
CHAFFER + NOUN
something
PREP.
about, through, with
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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To chaffer for preferment with his gold.
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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
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While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a
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vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings
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Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.
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A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.
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