He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
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Higgler
/ˈhɪɡlə/
Synonyms for "higgler" (6 found)
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Translations
2 translations across 1 languages.
German
2 entries- Milch-, Geflügel- und Wildhändler noun (person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals)
- Milch-, Geflügel- und Wildhändlerin noun (person who trades in dairy, poultry, and small game animals)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.
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[E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of such an enormous age, that there was no gravy to follow the knife […]
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'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.
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