interdeal
English
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editNoun
editinterdeal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Intercourse, negotiation; traffic.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So me in message unto her she sent, / To treat with her, by way of enterdeale […]
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- Life remain'd,
Tho thus dispers'd, but work and interdeal
Verb
editinterdeal (third-person singular simple present interdeals, present participle interdealing, simple past and past participle interdealt)
Further reading
edit- “interdeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “INTERDEAL”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 447, column 1.