Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to trick, to swindle.

1664		S. Butler 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.
1680		Rem. (1759) I 24: Asham’d, that Men so grave and wise, Should be chaldes’d by Gnats and Flies [M.] [F&H].
1697		J. Dennis Plot and No Plot 1: I caldes’d a Judge while he was taking my Depositions [M.] [F&H].