To bring, draw, or get by a wile (a person or animal to or from a place, course of action, etc., or a thing from a person); to lead, induce, or…

transitive. To get the start of (a person) so as to prevent him from obtaining a fair share of food, profit, etc. In later use, to defraud, cheat…

transitive. To play the fox for; to compass by crafty mean. Obsolete.

transitive. To obtain by cunning or by sponging. Also to shirk up. Obsolete. Cf. shark, v.1 2.

transitive. To win or take by cheating or fraud.

To get or effect by trickery or cheating. rare.

transitive. colloquial. To cheat, trick, or swindle, esp. at cards or another form of gambling; to steal. Now rare.

transitive. To cheat, swindle, trick (a person).

To obtain by cheating. Obsolete.

To bring or put into, or bestow upon, by jobbery or trickery; to palm or pass off upon. Also, to get up, procure, or promote by trickery; also with up…

transitive. To get or obtain (a thing) furtively or surreptitiously; to steal or pilfer; to cheat (a person) out of something. Also, to cheat…

transitive. To accomplish (something) in an irregular way by scheming or contrivance; to bring about or obtain by indirect or insidious means…

With up. To defraud or swindle; to disappoint. Australian slang.

intransitive. To use dishonest or devious methods to bring something about; to fiddle. Also transitive, to ‘wangle’, to scheme, to get (something)…

transitive to extract by trickery.

transitive, to trick by swindling, to subject to disappointment (in quot. 1961, passive).