haggle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle” ( W. Somerset Maugham).
2. v. To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
3. v. To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
4. v. Archaic To harass or worry by wrangling.
5. n. An instance of bargaining or arguing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To hack roughly; cut or chop in an unskilful manner; mangle in cutting.
2. To tease; worry.
3. To bargain in a petty and tedious manner; higgle; stick at small matters; cavil.
4. n. A haggling or chaffering.
5. To hail.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
2. v. transitive To hack (cut crudely)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
3. n. The act or process of haggling.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
2. v. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)