Obs. rare. [f. prec.: see -ERY.] The practice of kemping or fighting. Only in kempery-man = KEMP sb.1 1.
a. 1765. King Estmere, liv. in Child, Ballads, III. lx. (1885), 54/1. Downe then came the kemperye man. Ibid., lxvi. Up then rose the kemperye men.
[1865. Kingsley, Herew. (1867), I. 77. I knew you would turn Viking and kemperyman.]
