Dictionary entry

Cheap

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cheap (chēp), n. [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.

Shak.