Meanings
nounchaffery (countable and uncountable, plural chafferies)
plural chafferies
- countableobsoleteuncountabletrade; 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 Selling
1596 (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 […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC
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