cheater an escheator (
“an officer appointed by the Lord Treasurer, who observed the
Escheats due to the King in the County whereof he was
Escheator, and certified them unto the Chancery or Exchequer,”
Cowell's Law Dict. ed.
1727
):
“I will be cheater to them both”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, i. 3.
66
(with a quibble);
“I will bar no honest man my house, nor no cheater”
2 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 98.
(where the Hostess misunderstandscheater
as used by Falstaff)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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