2 entries under this word

Haggle

Hăg'gle, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. HAGGLED; p. pr. & vb. n. HAGGLING.] [Diminutive of Scot. hag, for hack.] 1. 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 insteeped. Shak. 2. To tease; to worry. Halliwell.

Hāg'gle, v. t.

verbtransitive

To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. H. Walpole.