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Definition of Bilking
1. bilk [v] - See also: bilk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilking
Literary usage of Bilking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Munday : Our Cab-bilking (common), cheating a cabman out of his fare. Some of
the methods of cab-bilking are very artful and curious. ..."
2. Irish Wit and Humor: Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by James Edward McGee (1872)
"O'CONNELL AND A bilking CLIENT. He used to lodge, when at Cork, at a stationer's
of the name of O'Hara, in Patrick-street, one of the principal ..."
3. Revelations of Ireland in the Past Generation by Daniel Owen Madden (1848)
"... of the Dialogue between them—His Victory— A Garland of Billingsgate—His Attack
on Cobbett—His High Spirits— Counsellor K and the bilking Client—Sow-West ..."
4. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"Methods of bilking the letter of the law.—Communal marriage.—Outside suitors and
cousinage. —The fact of cousinage unperceived and unnamed. ..."
5. The Reformers' Gazette by Muir, Gowans & Co. (Printer) (1831)
"... OF THE bilking PARLIAMENT. SOME days since (says the Editor of Tail's Magazine)
a proof-sheet was seat us for correction, in which Lord ..."
6. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"One does not quite understand the "imitation of bilking a reckoning," but some
pretty strong imitations may be found in the present day. ..."
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