English

Verb

chate ‎(third-person singular simple present chates, present participle chating, simple past and past participle chated)

1. (Scotland) To cheat.
   • 1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler:

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

   • 1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw:

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

   • 1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have:

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

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

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

Noun

chate ‎(plural chates)

1. (Scotland) Cheat.
   • 1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children:

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

   • (Can we date this quote?), Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs:

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

Old French

Noun

chate f ‎(oblique plural chates, nominative singular chate, nominative plural chates)

1. feminine equivalent of chat (cat)

Descendants

• French: chatte

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (chate, supplement)