regratery
English edit
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman regraterie, corresponding to regrate + -ery.
Noun edit
regratery (countable and uncountable, plural regrateries)
- (obsolete) The act or practice of regrating; buying commodities in order to sell them. [14th–17th c.]
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
- Thei rychen þorw regraterye · and rentes hem buggen / With þat þe pore people · shulde put in here wombe.