1. One who is treating as to sale or purchase, a dealer, a trafficker; a chafferer, a haggler.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 313. Or thise kyrkchaterars here ar a menee, Of barganars and okerars and lufars of symonee.
1552. Huloet, Bargayner, or bargayne maker.
1632. Sherwood, A bargainer, barguignard.
1658. in Burton, Diary (1828), III. 221. It would come better from another House, than from us, that are bargainers for the people.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xvii. The sight of the comfortable old house … ransacked by brokers and bargainers.
1857. Miss Winkworth, Tauler’s Life, 123. Knowing how full the world is of such bargainers with God, among monks and nuns.
† 2. = BARGAINOR. Obs.
1628. Coke, On Litt., 218 a. The state is not reuested in the Bargainer before a re-entry.
† 3. (Sc.) A quarreller, wrangler, bully. Obs.
c. 1500. Dunbar, Dance, 34. Bostaris, braggaris, and barganeris … All bodin in feir of weir.
