Peddlery

Peddlery
Peddlery Ped"dler*y, n. [Written also pedlary and pedlery.] 1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler. [1913 Webster]

2. Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] ``Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries.'' --Milton. [1913 Webster]


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