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Webster 1913 Edition

Haggle

Hag′gle

(hăg′g’l)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Haggled
(-g’ld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Haggling
(-glĭng)
.]
[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.
Shakespeare

Hag′gle

,
Verb.
I.
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never
haggled
about the value of blood.
Walpole.

Hag′gle

,
Noun.
The act or process of haggling.
Carlyle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Haggle

HAG'GLE

,
Verb.
T.
To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; 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 insteep'd.

HAG'GLE

,
Verb.
I.
To be difficult in bargaining; to hesitate and cavil. [See Higgle.]

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