Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room, […]
An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
[…] she pushed me inside a shop that sold oddments and seconds.
From odd + -ment.
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