higglers

Street hawkers, called higglers, were selling wooden jewelry and other carvings, but also Jamaican coffee and cocoa.

Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

Street hawkers, called higglers, were selling wooden jewelry and other carvings, but also Jamaican coffee and cocoa.

Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

I also bought this interesting fossil from one of the bowler hat 'higglers' as they would be called in Jamaica, and managed to get a photo with her, whilst she put on the most miserable face on possible ..

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These higglers may have been very honest fellows, in all but pecuniary questions, and possibly continued to be so in the bosom of their own families.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Georgetown Heights, past villas half-guessed by starlight among their gardens and fountains, and in by a market picturesque with a hundred torches flaring over the heads of mules and negroes and venders and higglers -- piles of game, crisp vegetables and scarlet berries.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

It turns lawyers into higglers with their clients.

An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

Strype describes this market as "a large place, with a commodious market-house in the midst filled with butchers 'shambles; besides the stalls in the market-place for country butchers, higglers and the like, being a market now grown to great account, and much resorted unto as being served with good provisions."

The Strand District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

The small dealers, even the very carriers along the road, the higglers, and other persons who call at

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

These higglers may have been very honest fellows, in all but pecuniary questions, and possibly continued to be so in the bosom of their own families.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

_ -- "A cant word, corrupted from _higgle_, which denotes any confused mass, as _higglers_ carry a huddle of provisions together"

Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852