sb. pl. [pl. of SUNDRY a. used subst.: cf. ODDS.] Small articles of a miscellaneous kind; esp. small items lumped together in an account as not needing individual mention.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 16. The vender of sundries.
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 164/2. The word ‘sundries’ being an abbreviation for ‘sundry accounts.’
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, xxviii. Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker were recruiting themselves … with tea and sundries.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. xxi. 547. A few of these [sc. ladders] are given in the table of Sundries.
1912. Times, 19 Dec., 20/3. 6,885 bales, made up as follows:—New South Wales, 387 bales; Queensland, 328;… British East African, ten; and sundries, five bales.
b. attrib. (sundries- or sundry-), as sundry ledger; sundries- or sundry-man, a dealer in sundries.
1888. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Sundry-man.
1892. Garden, 27 Aug., 191/3. Wasp-killers, as supplied by most horticultural sundriesmen.
1894. Times, 4 June, 13/6. Druggists’ sundrymen.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 2 Nov., 8/1. One of the ledgers, the cash-book, and the sundry ledger.
