dicker

• “Such critics had come to Washington, had made their "dicker," danced at the hotel hops, and been jostled on the Avenue.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “Thus equipped as an itinerant clock repairer, and having a few watches to "dicker" with, he started on foot for Jenkintown, a small place twelve miles from”

  The Expressman and the Detective

• “Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to”

  Oak Openings

• “One of their snipers is poised to take a shot at the Afghan who appears to be pointing out their exact position to the insurgents, a possible "dicker".”

  Army Rumour Service

• “The "dicker" was a neighbour who had apparantly watched closely morning after morning from his bedroom window noting every action of someone with whom he was on first name terms.”

  Army Rumour Service

• “He was hard as iron, determined to oust the English from the territory, and in no mood to dicker.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Now, if I can put through that dicker with Caswell's six horses -- say, I just got onto that horse-buyer to-day.”

  CHAPTER XIII

• “This incredible development is what happens when we let Yankees dicker with things that should be left to Southerners.”

  ELMER FUDD'S BRUNSWICK STEW

• “Wage discrimination against women in an affront: but Harper's crew want to dicker about it.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Well, they didn't dicker very long, but when the Strange One headed south again, it was in the rear of a spanking dog-team.”

  An Odyssey of the North

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