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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Bilked

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Bilking

[Origin unknown. Cf.

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to;

as, to

bilk

a creditor

Thackeray.

Noun.

A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

A cheat; a trick; a hoax.

Hudibras.

Nonsense; vain words.

B. Jonson.

A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.

Marryat.

Verb.

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by non-fulfillment of engagement; as, to bilk a creditor.