hag·gle  (hāg'əl) 
v.
hag·gled, hag·gling, hag·gles
v.
intr.
To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle" (W. Somerset Maugham). To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
v.
tr.
To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack. Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.
n. An instance of bargaining or arguing.
[Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots.]
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