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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Swindle

To cheat; from the German schwindeln, to totter. It originally meant those artifices employed by a tradesman to prop up his credit when it began to totter, in order to prevent or defer bankruptcy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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