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Haggled

Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
--Shak.

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haggled

vb. (en-past of: haggle)

Usage examples of "haggled".

Flamboyantly garbed and richly jeweled Darwinians haggled with leather-garbed Nadraks, and there were even a few black-robed Murgos striding along the blustery streets, with their broad-backed Thullish porters trailing behind them, carrying heavy packs filled with merchandise.

As the two haggled back and forth, Garion found himself more and more frequently staring out the window.

The soupy mud was ankle-deep, churned by the hooves of hundreds of horses and the feet of brightly dressed men of trade, who bawled and shouted and haggled with each other, ignoring the mud and rain.

Bericus was also a soldier, so it was legion fare for which he haggled with his chain of gold rings.

From the east, the smell of spices as merchants haggled in the market square in far Yankora.

Since in a town that size there was no such thing as an armorer's shop, on the first day they rode to the dun of the local tieryn and haggled with his chamberlain for an old mail shirt for Jill.

Out in the center of the cavern, some hundred or so of the mountain people haggled and traded.

The house was owned by a wiry little Drasnian name Khalon, and he and I haggled a bit before we concluded the transaction.

I went to a seedy-looking inn and haggled down the price of a single room for the night.