verb. (old, now recognised).—To bargain keenly; to stick at, or out for, trumpery points; to debate small issues.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.

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  1849–61.  MACAULAY, The History of England, ch. xx. HAGGLING with the greedy, making up quarrels.

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