dicker

• Some people just plain love to dicker, she must be one of those, but in this case she'd brought her dickering gear to the wrong bowling alley. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002
• Policymakers will do as they have always done, dicker, and deliver little. —  My Left Wing - Front Page
• 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 Philadelphia. —  The Expressman and the Detective
• He should have chosen a more peaceful life, such as the hen-traffic, or the growth of asparagus for the market Benedict Arnold has been severely reproached in history, but he was a brave soldier, and possibly serving under Gates, who jealously kept him in the background, had a good deal to do with the little European dicker which so darkened his brilliant career as a soldier Illustration: ARNOLD'S RECEPTION IN ENGLAND Unhappy man! —  Comic History of the United States

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