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chaffers

chaffers is the plural of chaffer.

chaffers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chaffer.

Meaning of chaffer

Noun (1)

chaffer (countable and uncountable, plural chaffers)

  1. (uncountable) Bargaining; merchandise.
    • vittels, and other chaffer and merchandize were excéeding cheape: for at London a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
  2. (countable, obsolete, slang) A person's mouth.
    • Moisten [or] damp your chaffer: take something to drink.

Noun (2)

chaffer (plural chaffers)

  1. The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.
    • A fan blows air through the chaffer to remove lightweight material known as chaff.2003, William W. Casady, “Grain Harvesting Systems”, in Dennis R. Heldman, editor, Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, →ISBN, page 449
  2. A person who or thing that chaffs.

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Questions about chaffers

What is chaffers the plural of?
Chaffers is the plural of chaffer.

Words near chaffers in the dictionary

  1. chafferies
  2. chaffering
  3. chafferings
  4. chaffern
  5. chafferns
  6. chaffers
  7. chaffery
  8. chaffie
  9. chaffier
  10. chaffies
  11. chaffiest

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