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higgler
/ˈhɪɡlə/
noun 3
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3ADJ.
best
VERB + HIGGLER
associate, sacrifice, wait
HIGGLER + NOUN
cart, evening, s
Definitions
noun
1
An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.
2
A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
3
A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
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He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
Wiktionary02
Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.
Wiktionary03
[E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of
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