Chaffer | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Chāf'fer, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. CHAFFERED; p. pr. & vb. n. CHAFFERING.] [O. Eng. chaffare, chepefare, Ger. kaufahren, from Eng. cheapen, A-S. ceapan, ceapian, to buy, to attempt to buy, and Eng. fare, Ger. fahren, to go, to pass, to travel; hence, chaffer is originally to go to buy, to go to market.] 1. To treat about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle; to negotiate. To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden. 2. To talk much or idly. Trench.

Chăf'fer, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To make a purchase of; to buy. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spencer. 2. To exchange. “[To] chaffer words.” Spencer.

Chāf'fer, n.

noun

n. That which is chaffered; merchandise. [Obs.] “Cattle, chaffer, or merchandise.” Holinshed.