[f. CHAFFER v. + -ER1.] One who chaffers; a dealer, bargainer.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxvi. 28. Hard is delyuered the charffarere [1388 marchaunt] fro his necgligence.
1552. Huloet, Chafferer of wares, negotiator.
1631. Sanderson, Serm. ad Aulam, i. (1681), II. 5. Bribing and Simoniacal Chafferers, have climbed up the highest rounds of Civil and Ecclesiastical preferments?
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 258. The tongue … learned of nurses and chafferers in the market.
