The action of traffic, v. in various other senses; (in early use chiefly) the activity of engaging in trade; buying and selling; commerce; (later…

The activity or business of acquiring, transporting, and selling something which, for legal or moral reasons, should not be treated as a mere…

Horse-jobbing. Applied also to dishonest modes of ‘raising the wind’ by means of a horse: see context of quot. 1602.

Trading, trafficking; an instance of this. Cf. monging, n. 1.

The practice of buying livestock cheaply (now esp. a very young racehorse) in the expectation of selling it on later at a profit.