| 单词 | skelder |
| 释义 | ˈskelder, v. Obs. exc. arch.
[A cant term of obscure origin.]
1. intr. To beg; to live by begging, esp. by passing oneself off as a wounded or disbanded soldier.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii, An honest decayed commander, cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seene in a bawdie house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormewood comœdies. 1611L. Barry Ram Alley i. i, You see how I must skelder for your good. 1633Marmion Fine Companion iii. iv, Wandering abroad to skelder for a shilling. 1822Scott Peveril xxxviii, Such a wife would save thee from skeldering on the public.
2. trans. To swindle, cheat, defraud (a person); also, to obtain (money) by cheating.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, A man may skelder yee, now and then, of halfe a dozen shillings, or so. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn Bk. Wks. (Grosart) II. 246 He shall now and then light vpon some gull..whom he may skelder..of mony. 1822Scott Nigel xxxiv, I could not skelder one piece out of them, without risk of hue and cry.
Hence ˈskeldering vbl. n.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Introd., His profession is skeldring and odling. 1602Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 203 If Skeldring fall not to decay, thou shalt flourish. 1606― Seven Deadly Sins Ded., That art of Skeldring I studie not; I stand vpon stronger Bases. |
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