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pedlery

pedlery is the alternative form of peddlery.

Meaning of peddlery

Noun

peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The trade or goods of a peddler.
  2. (obsolete, usually) trickery
    • [...] may at one time or other looke with a good judgement into these their deceitfull Pedleries,1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 54

Forms of pedlery

pluralpedleries

Questions about pedlery

What is pedlery the alternative form of?
Pedlery is the alternative form of peddlery.

Words near pedlery in the dictionary

  1. pedler
  2. pedleress
  3. pedleresses
  4. pedleries
  5. pedlers
  6. pedlery
  7. Pedley
  8. Pedleys
  9. pedlock
  10. PEDMAS
  11. Pedmore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedlery (page history and authors); peddlery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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