Meaning of higgle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To hawk or peddle provisions.
   archaic
2. To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
   archaic

Examples

“The genius of a people vvhere nothing but the monarchy is ſalique, having ceded this department, vvith ſundry others, totally to the vvomen—by a continual higgling vvith cuſtomers of all ranks and ſizes from morning to night, like ſo many rough pebbles ſhook long together in a bag, by amicable colliſions, they have vvorn dovvn their aſperities and ſharp angles, and not only become round and ſmooth, but vvill receive, ſome of them, a poliſh like a brilliant— […]”

“to truck and higgle for a private good”

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