tregetry
English
Noun
tregetry (uncountable)
- (obsolete) trickery; a trick
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of The Romaunt of the Rose to this entry?)
- 1999, Alan Gordon, Thirteenth Night, page 66:
- He was still staring at the coin. I indulged in a bit of tregetry, rolling it from knuckle to knuckle […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tregetry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)