Someone who higgles or chaffers in bargaining. A haggler. An itinerant dealer, especially a carrier or huckster who buys up poultry and dairy produce, and other supplies, and exchanges them for petty commodities from the shops in town.
"He was a foot-higgler now, having been obliged to sell his horse, and he travelled with a basket on his arm."
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891).
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