A Scottish dialectal verb and noun meaning to cheat (verb) or a cheat/act of cheating (noun). An older form found in Scots literature and dialect. The 'ch-' for 'ch-' in 'cheat' suggests a Scots phonological variant. Now obsolete outside historical contexts.
He was accused of chate at the card table and the matter nearly came to blows.
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(Scotland) To cheat.
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(Scotland) Cheat.
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