Obs. [f. as prec. + -RY.] The employment or dealing of a chapman; mercantile business. (With quot. 1790, cf. CHAP-MONEY.)
1483. Cath. Angl., 58/2. A chapmanry, negociacio.
1691. in Archæol., XII. 191 (D.). He is moderate in his prices … which gets him much chapmanry.
1727–31. in Bailey, vol. II.
1790. W. Marshall, Midl. Counties Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chapmanry, that which is abated, or given again, by the seller, on receiving money of the buyer.
