peddlery

English

Alternative forms

• pedlary
• pedlery

Etymology

From peddler +‎ -y.

Noun

peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)

1. (obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.
2. (obsolete) trickery
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 54:

     [...] may at one time or other looke with a good judgement into these their deceitfull Pedleries,

References

• “peddlery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.