hazardry

English

Etymology

hazard +‎ -ry

Noun

hazardry (usually uncountable, plural hazardries)

  1. (obsolete) Gambling.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
      Some fell to daunce, some fell to hazardry, / Some to make loue, some to make meriment […]
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