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the cheat
3. Thieves' Cant. According to Randall Holme, originally a stolen thing (cf. quot. 1592 at sense 2); but as early as Harman's date (1567) used in general sense ‘thing, article’, usually with distinctive premodifier. the cheat (= nubbing cheat at nubbing n., topping-cheat, treyning-cheat): the gallows. (Cf. the Shakespeare passage, a1616.) Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object
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substance1525
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solidity1604
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res extensa1652
extensum1678
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animal1729
materiate1755
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fellow1816
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jockey1827
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doojigger1927
bitch1951
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
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bar1545
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gourd1545
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cheat1567
dice of vantage?1577
demy1591
forger1591
squarier1592
tallmen?1592
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downhill1664
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miss-out1928
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giiv A smeling chete, a nose, a pratlynge chete, a tounge..a belly chete, an apern,..a grunting chet, a pyg..hanginge chattes, the gallowes.
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. F Cheates, which word is vsed generally for things, as Tip me that Cheate, Giue me that thing..and so treyning cheate is as much to say, hanging things, or the Gallous.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 27 With Dye and drab, I purchas'd this Caparison, and my Reuennew is the silly Cheate. Gallowes, and Knocke, are too powerfull on the Highway. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm3 Hig. But what's the action we are for now? ha? Robbing a Ripper of his fish?..Prig. Or cackling cheates? Hig. Or mergery praters, Rogers, And Tibs o'th the Buttery?
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4/1 To mand on the pad, and strike all the cheates... [interpreted as] To beg on the way, to rob all thou meetes.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. §68 Cheat, a stollen thing; but the word cheat joined to others hath then a variable signification.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Crashing-cheats, teeth; [so 1725 New Canting Dict.]
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. ii, in Misc. III. 298 See what your Laziness is come to.—To the Cheat, for thither you will go now, that's infallible.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xii. 321 A make to a million, but we trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow.
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