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chafferies

chafferies is the plural of chaffery.

Meaning of chaffery

Noun

chaffery (countable and uncountable, plural chafferies)

  1. (obsolete) trade; bargaining; buying and selling
    • Of the second be all Sciences, and those which be called Liberal Arts. Of the third is Merchandise and Chaffery, that is, Buying and Selling1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

Questions about chafferies

What is chafferies the plural of?
Chafferies is the plural of chaffery.

Words near chafferies in the dictionary

  1. Chaffees
  2. chaffer
  3. chaffered
  4. chafferer
  5. chafferers
  6. chafferies
  7. chaffering
  8. chafferings
  9. chaffern
  10. chafferns
  11. chaffers

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