peddlery

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From peddler + -y.

Obsolete, Usually The trade or goods of a peddler.

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:

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