Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. 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.
Haggle \Hag"gle\, n. The act or process of haggling. --Carlyle.
Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled} (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Haggling} (-gl[i^]ng).] [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.
He complains that some reporters want to "penalize an advertiser just because they're an advertiser." In January 1991, the Daily Spectrum of St. George, Utah, apologized for telling readers how to haggle when shopping for a car.
While pinstriped city slickers haggle over taxes, insurance and "serious" issues in the Legislature, cowboy-legislator John Carpenter keeps a vigil for varmints who try to bushwack cowboys' rights.
Associates say he makes it his business to haggle over financial and legal details.
"You don't have to haggle with an investor every time you need money," he says.
When invited to a golf outing by the railroad serving Geneva, Mr. Grow brought along a list of rail rates to haggle over between shots.
Unfortunately, the reluctance of the Aquino administration to do anything more than haggle over the amount of U.S. aid serves only to fuel resentment and increase dependency.
Watching men and women in suits haggle about stock prices in arb-speak, plus a lot of British slang, might not sound like riveting theater.
Local merchants and traders from neighboring Senegal and The Gambia here on Africa's northwest shoulder haggle with milling crowds from behind counters full of rice, fruits and vegetables, meat, fish and brightly patterned bolts of cloth.
It would have left the Pittsburgh-based parent still in bankruptcy court to haggle with creditors.