caldese v.
to trick, to swindle.
![]() | Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 1010: He stole your cloak and pick’d your pocket, Chows’d and Caldes’d you like a blockhead. | |
![]() | Rem. (1759) I 24: Asham’d, that Men so grave and wise, Should be chaldes’d by Gnats and Flies [M.] [F&H]. | |
![]() | Plot and No Plot 1: I caldes’d a Judge while he was taking my Depositions [M.] [F&H]. |