Verb (used without object) : to chaffer over a price. ,to chaffer about nothing in particular.    From Dictionary.com. 

“Why chaffer over it? give me seventy-five kopeks.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Portrait] Reference

With chaffer that worse was that war-crash of slaughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

` ` Why chaffer over it? give me seventy-five kopeks. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

We do not bargain and chaffer over our feelings, Hester and I.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

There was a business chaffer, and the affair was virtually settled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

The Duke of Bourbon was inclined to chaffer about the dowry demanded by Philip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

But we know that if Assyrian balm was ever for the world's chaffer it was in the days of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Ali Shar, “Begone, without more chaffer and chatter; there is nothing in the house.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Soames checked his instinctive “Not particularly” — he would not chaffer with this alien.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Let] Reference

Its owner hastened to meet Gleb and chaffer with him, then went about calling for crew to man the sweeps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1] Reference

Noblemen did not chaffer-although they were not above seeing something they wanted and sending a servant to bargain for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

Battista send him the young woman, Baldassare took the road for a round of chaffer which might keep him out of Verona a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

One or two pagazis came to my camp and began to chaffer; they wished to see the bales first, before they would make a final bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

From the crimson-tipped bee, and the chaffer slow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference

The hubbub and chaffer of it all went on the day long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

You make him go out into the market and chaffer for his bread!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference

Some of the rabble began to chaffer with this ancient hucksteress.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

After a long chaffer, seller and buyer finally reached an agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death] Reference

You didn't know I could chaffer Latin with the best of 'em, did you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nebuly Coat] Reference

Let us hear them threaten, and whimper, and chaffer among themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

"What do ye chaffer about?" cried Lady Lisle, in her old sharp manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference

To mention them is not to chaffer over details, but to state principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2] Reference

"Begone, without more chaffer and chatter; there is nothing in the house.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

One by one the others come to join in the conversation. to chaffer and cadge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

Well, I'll see: maybe I shall walk over one of these days and chaffer with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference

I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

'It is not my custom to chaffer about terms,' said Lady Willow with much dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Intervenes] Reference

Though he would not have admitted it he was tired, weary of the chaffer of it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon] Reference

Desmond -- few army men are, you know -- so I won't even attempt to chaffer with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Okewood of the Secret Service] Reference

There was, for instance, the poet who went round among the workmen to chaffer verses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

"Didn't you tell me, when I hired you, thet you was a first-class, A number one chaffer?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Boys Across the Frontier] Reference

Soames checked his instinctive "Not particularly" -- he would not chaffer with this alien.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

On the plain-stones there are a number of benches on which men sit down to gossip and chaffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

The Dartie within him made him chaffer for five minutes with young Padwick concerning the favourite for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

There were men of the Shepherds also with such fleeces as they could spare from the daily chaffer with the neighbours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference

You think of pay, Sir Constable, and of guerdon, as if you still stood in the market, free to chaffer on the terms of your service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrothed] Reference

And all battle was loathsome to him, nor for all the gain of his chaffer had he come into the Dale, had he known that war was looked for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference