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/ˈhɪɡlə/ · noun
(archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry..
He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
Barter’d for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch’d spoils lie stow’d in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler’s evening cart.
[E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of such an enormous age, that there was no gravy to follow the knife […]
'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.
Use higgler when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Higgler means (archaic) An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry..
Common synonyms include wrangler, haggler.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
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