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English Dictionary: haggling by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
haggling
n
  1. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Haggle \Hag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Haggling}.] [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.
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