merchand

English

Etymology

From French marchander. See merchant.

Verb

merchand (third-person singular simple present merchands, present participle merchanding, simple past and past participle merchanded)

1. (obsolete) To trade; to traffic.
   • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 91:

     Besides that, Ferdinando had but newly taken breath from the war with the Moors; and merchanded at this time with France for the restoring of the counties of Russignon and Perpignian, oppignorated to the French.