What is "dickered"

Usage examples of "dickered".

The price was right, as first she dickered it down to an acceptable amount, then rolled double or nothing, and won.

In Kongville I sat indoors, breathing canned air under artificial light, and dickered with dudes over bundling bins.

We dickered again over hominy grits and sidemeat for supper, and we dickered at breakfast, but about that time I got awful busy making up my pack, talking to the Tinker and the like, and he began to think he'd lost me.

We dickered with him until he agreed to take us across for a bushel of apples.

On the Long March, he’d dickered with warlords’ officers and bandit chieftains over things like this.

Every time we dickered a truce with the Lizards for picking up wounded and such, they stuck right with it.

The city dickered back and forth between tossing out the low-rent LCs, chemi-heads, and dealers along with the working poor and mowing down the shaky structures or revitalizing.

A Khatrisher, a lithe little man who looked like a Khamorth but acted like an imperial, dickered with a factor over what he could get for the load of timber he had brought to the city.