sundries, n. pl.
(ˈsʌndrɪz)
[pl. of sundry a. used subst.: cf. odds.]
1. a. Small articles of a miscellaneous kind; esp. small items lumped together in an account as not needing individual mention.
| 1755 Fielding Voy. to Lisbon 182 The whole pitiful 30 l. came pure and neat into the captain's pocket,..attended with the value of 10 l. more in sundries, into the bargain. 1794 A. Young Trav. France II. xix. 421 Live Stock..Corn..Tobacco..Sundries. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 16 The vender of sundries. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 164/2 The word ‘sundries’ being an abbreviation for ‘sundry accounts’. 1838 Dickens O. Twist xxviii, Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker were recruiting themselves..with tea and sundries. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 547 A few of these [sc. ladders] are given in the table of Sundries. 1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/3, 6,885 bales, made up as follows:—New South Wales, 387 bales; Queensland, 328;..British East African, ten; and sundries, five bales. |
b. spec. (chiefly Austral.), in Cricket, the extras, or runs scored otherwise than off the bat.
| 1867 Australasian 16 Mar. 332/1 With sundries forty-five, the innings closed for the very long score of 211. 1976 0–10 Cricket Scene (Austral.) 13/1 That 104 was seven runs more than the 11 New Zealanders could muster between them..excluding the 15 sundries. |
2. attrib. and Comb. (sundries- or sundry-), as sundry ledger; sundries- or sundry-man, a dealer in sundries.
| 1885 List of Subscribers, Classified (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 84 (heading) Druggists' sundriesmen. 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Sundry-man. 1892 Garden 27 Aug. 191 Wasp-killers, as supplied by most horticultural sundriesmen. 1894 Times 4 June 13/6 Druggists' sundry⁓men. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 8/1 One of the ledgers, the cash-book, and the sundry ledger. |