S vs Chaffer - What's the difference?
s | chaffer |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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 letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb chaffer is
to haggle or barter.As a noun chaffer is
bargaining; merchandise or chaffer can be (agriculture) the upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}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
