REGRATING
\ɹɪɡɹˈe͡ɪtɪŋ], \ɹɪɡɹˈeɪtɪŋ], \ɹ_ɪ_ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ]\
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An offence of the common law, that of buying or getting into one's hands at a fair or market any provisions, corn, or other dead victual, with the intention of selling the same there, or within four miles, at a higher price: he who does this thing being a Regrator. (To regrate is to scrape or dress cloth, etc., so as to sell it again.)-Brown, Law Dictionary.
By Henry Percy Smith
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