chate

present singular third person chates · participle present chating · participle past chated · past chated

1. ScotlandTo cheat.

   "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.

   1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler

   3 more examples

   I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."

   1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw

   "But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.

   1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have

   But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs. Rooney. "

   1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.

plural chates

1. ScotlandCheat.

   That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.

   1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs

   1 more example

   With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.

   1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children