English Dictionary

dicker

noun

(obsolete) A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. / (US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.

He bought a dicker of wheat from the farmer.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.

Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.

意味（2）

(US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.

to make a dicker