skelder

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/ˈskɛldə(ɹ)/

noun

A vagrant or cheat.

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Meanings

nounskelder (plural skelders)

plural skelders

  1. obsoleteA vagrant or cheat.
verbskelder (third-person singular simple present skelders, present participle skeldering, simple past and past participle skeldered)

present singular third person skelders · participle present skeldering · participle past skeldered · past skeldered

  1. archaicTo deceive; to cheat; to trick.

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

    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)
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    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

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

    He has a story of the last gull whom he had skeldered of his money at primero and hazard

    1843, Charles Knight, The Pictorial Shakespeare

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
vagabond
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APA

skelder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skelder

MLA

“skelder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skelder. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skelder,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skelder.

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