Chaffern vs Chaffers - What's the difference?
chaffern | chaffers |
(chaffer)
To haggle or barter.
* Dryden
* 1985 , , Kingdom of the Wicked :
To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Bargaining; merchandise.
(agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed
* {{quote-book, 2003, William W. Casady, chapter=Grain Harvesting Systems, editor=Dennis R. Heldman, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering
, passage=A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.}}
As a noun chaffern
is (obsolete) a vessel for heating water.As a verb chaffers is
(chaffer).chaffers
English
Verb
(head)chaffer
English
Etymology 1
From cheap fare .Verb
(en verb)- To chaffer for preferments with his gold.
- But the people looked much like Caleb’s own. They wore dirty robes, chaffered at fruit stalls, spat, scratched.
- (Trench)
Synonyms
* bargain * barter * haggle * negotiateNoun
- (Holished)
Etymology 2
FromNoun
(en noun)citation