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skelder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskɛldə(ɹ)/

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A vagrant or cheat.

Forms

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skelders Number=Plur lexicographic

skelder en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskɛldə(ɹ)/

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
    • A man may skelder ye now and then of half a shilling 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
    • they have been delivered to me by tale I am to pay them over to Lord Dalgarno, whose boy waits for them, and I could not skelder one piece out of them 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III) (in English), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
    • He has a story of the last gull whom he had skeldered of his money at primero and hazard 1843, Charles Knight, The Pictorial Shakespeare:

Forms

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skelders Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
skeldering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
skeldered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
skeldered Tense=Past lexicographic