Meanings
nounhazardry (usually uncountable, plural hazardries)
plural hazardries
- obsoleteuncountableusuallyGambling.
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
Origin
- Middle Frenchhasarderie
- Middle Englishhasardrie
- Englishhazardry
From Middle English hasardrie, from Middle French hasarderie; equivalent to hazard + -ry.
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hazardry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hazardry
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“hazardry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hazardry. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hazardry,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hazardry.
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