skelder

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɛldə(ɹ)/

Noun

skelder (plural skelders)

1. (obsolete) A vagrant; a cheat.

Verb

skelder (third-person singular simple present skelders, present participle skeldering, simple past and past participle skeldered)

1. (archaic) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A man may skelder ye now and then of half a shilling

   • 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skelder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)