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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪkə(ɹ)/Part of speech verbSorted cdeikrStarts with DEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. negotiate the terms of an exchange

Word origin

From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).

Used in a sentence

  • Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.
  • They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.
  • The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves.

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