Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cutlery, a workman who forms and fixes the hafts or handles of knives.
  • noun A wrangler; a caviler; a debater. Hollyband, Dict., 1593.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A caviler; a wrangler.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A caviler; a wrangler.

Etymologies

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German haften to cling or stick to, and English haffle.

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