Another variant or archaic form of cheatery; cheating practices or deception.
A variant of 'cheatery' using a shortened suffix form. It may also derive from 'cheat' + '-ry' suffix (less common than '-ery'), reflecting dialectal or orthographic variation in Middle English and Early Modern English.
Words like 'cheatry' remind us that standardized spelling is surprisingly young—Shakespeare and his contemporaries would write the same word five different ways in a single document! Modern spell-check would have driven them wild.
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