Word Meanings - CHAFFERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to CHAFFERY)

• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.
• BARGAIN
  prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself
• TRAFFIC
  trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. übermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out
• TRAFFICKER
  One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• BARGAINOR
  One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.
• BARGAINEE
  The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• INTERTRAFFIC
  Mutual trade of traffic.