interdeal

English

Alternative forms

• enterdeal

Etymology

From inter- +‎ deal.

Noun

interdeal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Intercourse, negotiation; traffic.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:

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

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To carry on intrigues.

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References

• “interdeal” in James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho, 1847, OCLC 81046494, page 447, column 1.

Anagrams

• entrailed, tail-ender, tailender, tradeline