HAGGLE

haggle. Haggle, v. to mangle, cut, chop, bargain tediously

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Hag″gle (hăg″g'l), v. 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. Shak.