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English
Etymology
From inter- + deal.
Noun
interdeal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Intercourse, negotiation; traffic.
1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: P Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:Life remain'd,
Tho thus dispers'd, but work and interdeal
Verb
interdeal (third-person singular simple present interdeals, present participle interdealing, simple past and past participle interdealt)
- (obsolete) To carry on intrigues.
Further reading
- “interdeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “INTERDEAL”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, , →OCLC, page 447, column 1.
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