tregetry

English

Noun

tregetry (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) trickery; a trick
   • c. 1360s (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:

     For I did hem a tregetry,
     But thereof yeve I a little tale

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   • 1999, Alan Gordon, Thirteenth Night, page 66:

     He was still staring at the coin. I indulged in a bit of tregetry, rolling it from knuckle to knuckle […]

References

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