[f. CHARIOT sb. + -RY. (There may have been a Fr. charioterie, in sense 1; with sense 2 cf. cavalry, camelry, etc.)]
† 1. The art of driving a chariot. Obs. rare–1.
1686–7. Aubrey, Rem. Gentilisme (1881), 120. Chariotry is one of the antiquated Modes of Chivalry.
2. The collective name for soldiers who fought from chariots. Cf. cavalry, infantry.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 260. Deep ruts … indented … by the wheels of Fingal’s chariotry.
1871. F. C. Cook, in Speaker’s Comm. Ezek. v. 28, I. 309/2. The entire loss of the chariotry and cavalry. Ibid., 463/2. Israel had no chariotry.
