Badger

Badger - Other Definitions

• (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
  
  
• (n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
  
  
• (n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
  
  
• (v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
  
  
• (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Badger