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hazardry

hazardry noun: gambling.

Noun

hazardry (usually uncountable, plural hazardries)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Gambling.
    • Some fell to daunce, some fell to hazardry, / Some to make loue, some to make meriment […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of hazardry

pluralhazardries

Origin of hazardry

From Middle English hasardrie, from Middle French hasarderie; equivalent to hazard + -ry.

Questions about hazardry

What does hazardry mean?
Hazardry means gambling.
What part of speech is hazardry?
Hazardry is a noun.
What is the plural of hazardry?
The plural of hazardry is hazardries.

Words near hazardry in the dictionary

  1. hazardous materials
  2. hazardously
  3. hazardousness
  4. hazardproof
  5. hazardries
  6. hazardry
  7. hazards
  8. hazards a guess
  9. Hazarewal
  10. Hazaribagh
  11. Hazarika

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