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higgler|ˈhɪglə(r)|
Also 7 heglar, (8 hicklar), 7–9 higler.
[f. higgle v. + -er1.]
1. One who higgles or chaffers in bargaining; = haggler 2.
App. the source of sense 2, as in the corresponding senses of haggler. See Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 264.
2. a. An itinerant dealer; esp. a carrier or a huckster who buys up poultry and dairy produce, and supplies in exchange petty commodities from the shops in town; = haggler 3, cadger 1, 2.
1637J. Taylor (Water P.) Carriers' Cosmogr. in Arb. Garner I. 237 There doth come from Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire some higglers or demi-carriers. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. cxlix. 633 Hucksters, Heglars that buy and sell and forestall the Markets. 1722De Foe Plague (1756) 167 Higlers, and such People as went to and from London with Provisions. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. lx. 335 An honest higler..goes to town constantly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 1798in Strand Mag. (1897) Aug. 216 Dressed in a drab jacket and had the appearance of being a hicklar. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 214 A person keeping a higler's cart. 1891T. Hardy Tess II. 262 He was a foot-higgler now, having been obliged to sell his..horse, and he travelled with a basket on his arm.
b. One who buys poultry to fatten for the market.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 476/2 Speckled colours are most generally seen with the higgler. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 220 The following method of fattening fowls has been kindly furnished us by one of the first higglers in Sussex.
†c. A horse used by a higgler. Obs.
1719D'Urfey Pills IV. 13 On Pads, Hawkers, Hunters, on Higlers and Racers.
d. (See quot.)
1930M. Clark Home Trade 176 The term ‘higgler’ is applied in the Covent Garden market to a dealer who buys his supplies of fruit with a view to selling what he buys at a profit to any buyer, either on that market or on any other; to wholesalers or to retailers. |