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cheat: swindle, fraud Wint. IV. ii. [iii.] 28, 130 ∥ The word passed through the senses (1) escheat, i.e. property which falls to the lord by forfeit or fine, (2) booty, (3) stolen thing (in the thieves' cant of the 16th cent. simply=thing), (4) fraud.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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