From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
haggling
n : an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, wrangle, wrangling]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Haggle \Hag"gle\ (h[a^]g"g'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haggled
(-g'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Haggling (-gl[i^]ng).] [Freq. of
Scot. hag, E. hack. See Hack to cut.]
To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or
cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by
cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
[1913 Webster]
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,
Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]