Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAR'TER, v.i. [Sp. baratar; It. barattare, to exchange. The primary sense is probably to turn or change, and this gives the sense of deceiving, barratry, as well as of bartering. L. vario, verto. Class Br.]

To traffick or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred.