transitive and intransitive. To pilfer. Now rare (English regional in later use).

transitive. To rob (a person); to steal (a thing) away.

transitive. To make away with, misappropriate; to steal, esp. under circumstances which involve a breach of trust; to pilfer, filch. Now frequently…

transitive. To obtain (something) by stealth, cheating, or petty theft; to get in a clandestine way; to pilfer, to filch. Obsolete.

transitive. To touch or lay one's hands on (an object) with a view to taking it; to steal (a thing); to put one's fingers in (a pocket, etc.) in…

transitive. To steal (property), esp. in small quantities; to filch. Also figurative.

To be beforehand in securing (something); to consume (food) hastily so that others cannot have their share; to engross, monopolize (commodities); in…

transitive. To steal, esp. things of small value; to pilfer. Occasionally in weaker sense: To take away surreptitiously.

with away, off.

transitive. To entice away, kidnap (a person); to make away with, steal; = purloin, v. 1a, 2a. Also intransitive.

colloquial and slang after 16th cent. transitive. To appropriate (something not one's own); to steal, to filch, to pilfer (something). Now archaic…

transitive. To snatch with a hook; to seize by stealth; to steal, pilfer. Cf. hooker, n.1 1.

transitive. Scottish and Irish English. To obtain by deceit; to steal, pilfer.

transitive. To steal, purloin.

colloquial. To pilfer, purloin, steal; to appropriate furtively (a small part of anything).

transitive. To take by chicanery or petty theft. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. Of a carter: to steal (part of a load of coal) for resale. Also: to pilfer.

transitive. English regional (northern). To steal (an item of small value); to pilfer. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. colloquial. gen. To pilfer, purloin; to acquire (property) inappropriately.

transitive. Criminals' slang. To steal or embezzle a small amount from (a quantity of money, goods, etc.); to steal some of the contents of (a…

slang. transitive. To steal, pilfer. Obsolete.

transitive. To pilfer, purloin; to acquire (property) in a dishonest or underhand manner. Cf. cabbage, v.2 3.

transitive. To acquire dishonestly; to pilfer.

transitive. U.S. slang. ‘To conceal from the owner, to purloin’ (Bartlett).

transitive. To pilfer, to steal. Now rare.

transitive. slang. To pilfer or steal. Now rare.

transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand). To take or keep as a souvenir or memento; (euphemistic) to appropriate…

transitive. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand slang. To search (a body, a person's belongings, a place) for things to steal; to steal, pilfer…

transitive and intransitive. To pilfer, steal; to pick up or obtain (from the roadside, etc.); spec. to prospect for gold, as in old diggings. Cf. s…

slang (originally U.S.). transitive. Originally and esp. Military. To obtain by illicit or dubious means; to steal; to scrounge.

U.S. and Australian. To take (esp. euphemistic by misappropriation) and make use of (unemployed or unattended property).

transitive. To steal.