bartering

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His limbs also are bare, save a sort of gartering below the knee, of shell and bead embroidery.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

Many gentlemen, and especially the Welsh, wore long loose trousers as far as the ankle, leaving these garments free from any cross gartering.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

They consisted of fish-hooks, lines, hatchets, knives, files, fire-steels, kettles, combs, awls, needles, thread, blue and red cloth, gartering, and beads, sufficient to serve a considerable number of Esquimaux for several years.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Accessories included glass beads, buttons, thread, both brown and black, twelve dozen yards of gartering, bone combs, scissors, shears and tailors' shears.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash

On the 19th of November, Mr. Hunt was lucky enough to purchase another horse for his own use, giving in exchange a tomahawk, a knife, a fire steel, and some beads and gartering.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington