Hag"gle , n. The act or process of haggling.
Carlyle.
Hag"gle , v. i. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled
about the value of blood.
Walpole.
Hag"gle (hăg"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled (-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl&ibreve;ng).]
[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.
Hear it pronounced