Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chaffer

Chaffer , noun

One who chaffs.

Chaffer , noun

[Old English chaffare, cheapfare; Anglo-Saxon ceáp a bargain, price + faru a journey; hence, originally, a going to barain, to market. See Cheap, and Fare.]

Bargaining; merchandise. [Obsolete] — Holished

Chaffer , intransitive verb

[Old English chaffaren, from chaffare, chapfare, cheapfare, a bargaining. See Chaffer, n.]

1.
To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
To chaffer for preferments with his gold. — Dryden
2.
To talk much and idly; to chatter. — Trench

Chaffer , transitive verb

1.
To buy or sell; to trade in.
He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. — Spenser
2.
To exchange; to bandy, as words. — Spenser