chaffery

See also: Chaffery

English

Etymology

See chaffer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæfəɹi/

Noun

chaffery (countable and uncountable, plural chafferies)

1. (obsolete) traffic; bargaining; buying and selling
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     Of the second be all Sciences, and those which be called Liberal Arts. Of the third is Merchandise and Chaffery, that is, Buying and Selling

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chaffery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)