skelder

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An honest decayed commander cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seen in a bawdy-house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormwood comedies.

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  1. A vagrant; a swindler. B. Jonson.
  2. To practise begging, especially under the pretense of being a wounded or disbanded soldier; play the swindler; live by begging. Also skilder. [Obsolete or local.] Soldier? you skeldering varlet! Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, v. 1.
  3. To swindle, especially by assuming to be a worn-out soldier; hence, in general, to cheat; trick; defraud. [Obsolete or local.] A man may skelder ye, now and then, of half a dozen shillings, or so. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1.

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  • An honest decayed commander cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seen in a bawdy-house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormwood comedies. —  The Poetaster
  • A man may skelder ye, now and then, of half —  Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
  • "I swear to you," continued the scrivener "they are in no way at my disposal -- 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, without risk of hue and cry." —  The Fortunes of Nigel
  • 'an honest, decayed commander cannot skelder, cheat, nor be seen in a bawdy house, but he shall be straight in one of their wormwood comedies.' —  Shakspere and Montaigne
 

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