Dictionary entry

Haggle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hag″gle (hăg″g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Haggled (–g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.Haggling (–glĭng).] [Freq. of Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.] To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.

Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,

Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.