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Definition of Dickered
1. dicker [v] - See also: dicker
Literary usage of Dickered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"The witness Lehmann told you that he went there that day to buy a revolver from
Lingg; that they dickered about it and that he went away without buying it, ..."
2. Democracy: Discipline: Peace by William Roscoe Thayer (1919)
"When Bismarck dickered with the Catholics or with the Jews in order to carry a
measure in the Reichstag, he was doing no more and no less than the late ..."
3. The R.I. Schoolmaster by Rhode Island, Commissioner of Public Schools (1858)
"В :—" What have you done with your other horse :" С :—" I've dickered him."
В :— " What kind of a speaker is W—?" С :—" a stump orator. ..."
4. The New London Jest Book by William Carew Hazlitt (1871)
"The required needle was dickered for the egg, and the Yankee was going away ...
The generous shopkeeper handed him the dickered egg, but without asking him ..."
5. The Good housekeeping hostess: entertainments for all seasons and occasions (1904)
"Sometimes a certain article will be dickered from one to another until it has
been the successive property of every person in the room. ..."
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