transitive. To rob or plunder (a person). Now Scottish and rare.

To deprive (a person) of something unlawfully, esp. by force or the threat of force. Also figurative. transitive. With double object. Now rare.

transitive. To rob, deprive (a person or place, etc.) of something. Now rare (chiefly archaic in later use).

transitive. To rob, plunder, deprive by violence of.

to shake (a person) out of (property): to rob, plunder. Obsolete.

transitive. to purge a person's purse: to rob or cheat a person; to purge a purse: to empty a purse of money. Obsolete.

‘In the slang of Bardolph it seems to mean: to ease a person of his cash’ (Schmidt).

to rob someone blind: to steal from someone mercilessly or shamelessly.