interdeal

English

Alternative forms

• enterdeal

Etymology

From inter- +‎ deal.

Noun

interdeal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Intercourse, negotiation; traffic.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So me in message unto her she sent, / To treat with her, by way of enterdeale […]

   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     Life remain'd,
     Tho thus dispers'd, but work and interdeal

Verb

interdeal (third-person singular simple present interdeals, present participle interdealing, simple past and past participle interdealt)

1. (obsolete) To carry on intrigues.

Further reading

• “interdeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “INTERDEAL”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 447, column 1.

Anagrams

• dateliner, entrailed, tail-ender, tailender, trade line, tradeline