chate - What does it mean?

'chate' hits on the web

(chat)

(Scotland) To cheat.

* {{quote-book|year=1899|author=Horatio Alger, Jr.|title=Paul the Peddler|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage="You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.}}

* {{quote-book|year=1875|author=Horatio Alger|title=The Young Outlaw|chapter=|edition= citation

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

* {{quote-book|year=1866|author=Oliver Optic|title=Hope and Have|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage="But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.}}

* {{quote-book|year=1873|author=Various|title=The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.|chapter=|edition= citation

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

(en-noun)

(Scotland) Cheat.

* {{quote-book|year=1885|author=Grace Greenwood|title=Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children|chapter=|edition= citation

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

* {{quote-book|year=|author=Mayne Reid|title=The Ocean Waifs|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate .}} ----