PILFER

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

2.
v.

To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.


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