higglern.
/ˈhɪɡlə/ 1. One who higgles or chaffers in bargaining; = haggler n. 2.Apparently the source of sense 2, as in the corresponding senses of haggler n. See Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 264.
2. † c. A horse used by a higgler. Obsolete.
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 n. 3, cadger n. 1, 2.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant
piepowderc1436
kedger1497
badgera1500
cadger?a1500
chapman?1593
peripateticc1600
haggler1602
higgler1637
mugger1743
truckerc1790
smouch1849
smouse1850
togt-ganger1879
kurveyor1885
smouser1903
machinga1993
1637 J. Taylor Carriers Cosmogr. sig. B4 There doth come from great Marlow in Buckinghamshire, some Higglers, or demie Carriers.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. cxlix. 633 Hucksters, Heglars that buy and sell and forestall the Markets.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 167 Higlers and such People as went to and from London with Provisions.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxii. 297 An honest higgler..goes to town constantly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
1798 in Strand Mag. (1897) Aug. 216 Dressed in a drab jacket and had the appearance of being a hicklar.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 214 A person keeping a higler's cart.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxviii. 262 He was a foot-higgler now, having been obliged to sell his..horse, and he travelled with his basket on his arm.
b. One who buys poultry to fatten for the market.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in other livestock
pig-jobbera1722
hog jobber1723
higgler1830
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding poultry > fattener
crammer1655
higgler1830
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 417 The following method of fattening fowls has been kindly furnished us by one of the first higglers in Sussex.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 476/2 Speckled colours are most generally seen with the higgler.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls wagon > used in specific professions
coal horse1384
beer-horse1560
malt-horse1561
malt mare1594
higgler1707
stead-horse1708
pit pony1876
tip-horse1912
1707 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) II. 18 On Pads, Hawkers, Hunters, on Higlers and Racers.
d. (See quot. 1930.)
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman > in specific trades
bummaree1786
fogger1843
haggler1851
higgler1930
1930 M. 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.
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