Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse, esp. to deflower.

1622		Middleton & Rowley The Changeling III iv: I have eas’d you Of your trouble, think on’t, I am in pain, And must be eas’d of you.
c.1625		‘Cuckowes Comendation’ Pepys Ballads (1987) I 407: [He neatly fits] his Mistris wast, And puts on her strait Bodies, [...] another is at home, To ease his wiues strait Bodies, which are to narrow growne.
c.1674		‘One Evening to Kiss’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 55: In the cool shade We sported and plai’d And eased us of our flame.
1685–8		Advice to Maidens’ Pepys Ballads (1987) IV 365: [A whore] would have no one pass by her, But what should come and handle her Ware, and they having Money, she’d ease ’um.
1708		N. Ward Adam and Eve 126: Women that admire the Sport, Will have their Sparks to ease ’em.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 255: Her Booby seldom was at home, And therefore could not please her; Which made more welcome Guest to come, In Charity to ease her.
1720		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 325: If any with Maiden-heads laden, / The Red-coats they will ease ye.
1833		‘The Irishman’s Pipe’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 6: My jewel, I’ll ease you, I’ll not cruelly teae you, / As you are the darling i wish to obtain.
1861		A.C. Swinburne Poems and Ballads, Hermaphroditus n.p.: Hath made him man to ease a womans sighs [F&H].

2. to rob, to steal; to cheat at gambling.

1629		Jonson New Inn I i: Ease his pockets of a superfluous watch.
1734		C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c 452: He stopp’d a Coach, and eas’d the Passengers of about eleven Pounds.
1776		Reading Mercury 17 June 3/3: A gentleman of the turf [...] picked up a Dulcinea [...] when drinking too freely, she had the dexterity to ease his pocket of [...] 30l.
1793		Sporting Mag. Jan. I 243/1: The high-bred French Greek, Count de T–– [...] eased a young Englishman of a cool Fifteen Hundred.
1817		W. Scott Rob Roy (1883) 125: He had been stopped on a solitary spot and eased of his beloved travelling-companion, the portmanteau, by two men. [Ibid.] 128: The law’s hard – very severe – hanged poor Jack Winterfield at York [...] all for easing a fat west-country grazier of the price of a few beasts.
1821		D. Haggart Autobiog. 35: I sunk into his keek cloy, and eased him of a skin, containing nineteen quids of dross.
1828		‘A Flat Enlightened’ Life in the West I 85: The players at that ‘hell’ were ‘eased’ of upwards of £2000.
1834		‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell, / And ease some spooney’s slash [...] Whilst Sally’s eye / Winks soft and sly, / He dings to her the cash.
1842		Bell’s Penny Dispatch 17 Apr. 4/2: Charlotte [...] had commenced unloosening his neck chain, whilst one of the men were endeavouring to ease him of a large emerald ring.
1846		Bell’s Life in Sydney 10 Oct. 3/2: He boldy walked into Tracey, and as boldly accused him of having eased him of his money.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 55/1: Little Brummy who had got ‘turned up’ that morning [...] on the charge of easing a lady of her ‘skin’ while looking at the pictures in the National Gallery.
1872		Fife Herald 24 Oct. 3/1: On awakening [he] found he was minus his boots! It is conjectured that some needy tramp had eased him of his understandings.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 4: To Ease a Bloak - To rob a gentleman.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. [as 1882].
1901		Boy’s Own Paper 16 Feb. 306: And you eased that rascally Dutch poacher of his skins?
1902		Truth (Sydney) 22 June 8/4: Opposite there were another [brothel] / Running of a game unsound, / Where a bloke were one day eased of / Close upon 200 pound .
1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Cracksman’s Conscience’ Sporting Times 18 Jan. 1/3: I had eased him of some hundreds of good golden quids, I knew.
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Nov. 44/2: I might as well hav’ guv him the lot, because two gents wot got in at Strathfield eased me of the rest before I got to Lawson. They were bosker euchre players.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 77: ease one of his dough To rob a person.