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barter Verb to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services, rather than for money Noun trade by the exchange of goods [Old French barater to cheat]
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He would have heard of channels and sandbanks, of natural features of the land useful for sea-marks, of villages and tribes and modes of barter and precautions to take: with the instructive tales about native chiefs dyed more or less blue, whose character for greediness, ferocity, or amiability must have been expounded to him with that capacity for vivid language which seems joined naturally to the shadiness of moral character and recklessness of disposition. These coins being scarce, the people were often forced to barter their commodities instead of selling them. many a prince has been known To barter his robes for our cowl and our gown, But which of us e'er felt the idle desire To exchange for a crown the grey hood of a Friar! |
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