To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
(quote-book)
(ux)
To hack (cut crudely)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(RQ:Twain Huckleberry Finn)
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
June 30, 1784, (w), ''letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway''
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.