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Definition of Filching
1. filch [v] - See also: filch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filching
Literary usage of Filching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"Any thing procured by begging or filching ; victuals, provisions so procured ;
and gen. — provisions. A prig or priggish fellow, — one who has pricked ..."
2. History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario): With Special Reference by William Canniff (1869)
"... in Winter —Planting Posts—Result—Litigation—Losing Land—A Newspaper Letter-
Magistrates—Landholders—Their Sons' Lawyers—Alleged filching—Speculators at ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"Bayly. Cal me the knave hether, he shal sure kysse the stockes. I shall teach
him a lesson for filching hens or cocks ! 55 D. Rat. ..."
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