Dicker vs Picker - What's the difference?
dicker | picker |
to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale
to barter
* Cooper
(obsolete) The number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.
* Heywood
* 1866 , The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 1, page 171
(US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
* Whittier
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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, title= (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
As nouns the difference between dicker and picker
is that dicker is (obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker while picker is agent noun of pick; one who picks.As a verb dicker
is to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.dicker
English
Verb
- Ready to dicker and to swap.
Noun
(en noun)- A dicker of cowhides.
- to make a dicker
- For peddling dicker , not for honest sales.
Anagrams
* ----picker
English
Noun
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