As nouns the difference between sold and forestaller
is that sold is (obsolete) solary; military pay while forestaller is a person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.
As a verb sold
is (sell).
sold
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)
(sell)
Derived terms
* oversold
Etymology 2
(etyl) solde. See soldier, and compare sou.
Noun
(obsolete) solary; military pay
- (Spenser)
(
Webster 1913)
forestaller
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices
Usage notes
For at least a period of time in the late-18th century, under English Royal law, forestaller had a more narrow meaning which included the concept of not selling again in the same market within three months. By this de jure restriction, legislation attempted to distinguish between a socially useful function (storing grain for a potential future dearth) and an alleged socially harmful function of buying up grain so as to increase the price to the poor or needy by facilitating a so-called excess profit to the intermediary.