dickers' - 3 dictionary results
dick⋅er
1
[dik-er] 
ər
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle. |
| 2. | to barter. |
| 3. | to try to arrange matters by mutual bargaining: They dickered for hours over some of the finer points of the contract. |
–noun
| 4. | a petty bargain. |
| 5. | a barter or swap. |
| 6. | an item or goods bartered or swapped. |
| 7. | a deal, esp. a political deal. |
dick⋅er
2 [dik-er] –noun
| the number or quantity ten, esp. a lot of ten hides or skins. |
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| dick·er (dĭk'ər) intr.v. dick·ered, dick·er·ing, dick·ers To bargain; barter. n. The act or process of bargaining. [Probably from dicker, a quantity of ten, ten hides, from Middle English diker, perhaps from Old English *dicor, from Latin decuria, set of ten, from decem, ten; see dek  in Indo-European roots.] |
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