Meaning of dicker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
   US, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d_MuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.”

“The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves.”

“to make a dicker”

““Grant that the North’s insulted, scorned, betrayed, O'erreached in bargains with her neighbor made, When selfish thrift and party held the scales For peddling dicker, not for honest sales,— Whom shall we strike? Who most deserves our blame?”

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