Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Traffic; buying and selling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Traffic; bargaining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
traffic ;bargaining
Etymologies
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Examples
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There remains also "a true inventory of all the tooles and utensils belonging to the forge at Whitecroft, this 13th August, 1656," divided into "all the chaffery, for the upper finery, for the lower finery."
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"_Park End Forge_ -- consistinge of 2 hamers, 3 Fyneryes and 1 chaffery, repayered about 2 years since by the Farmers, viz., 2 newe drome beames,
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"The chaffery wheele in the west side, old and decayed, 3lb to repaire it.
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"_Parkend Forge_ -- consistinge of 2 hamers, 3 Fyneryes, and 1 chaffery, repayered about 2 years since by the Farmers, viz., 2 newe drome beames,
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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"The chaffery wheele in the west side, old and decayed, 3lb to repaire it.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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