[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That chaffers.
1483. General Sentence, in Festival (1532). Al maner of marchaundyse of chaffryng men and of men of craft.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 114. Chaffering townsmen.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, I. 954. Near all the birds Will sing at dawn, and yet we do not take the chaffering swallow for the holy lark.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 117. In the market-place He stood and saw the chaffering folk go by.
