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C.iii. b.) "A prigger of Prauncers be horse stealers, for to prigge signifieth in their language to steale, and a prauncer is a horse, so beinge put together, the matter is plaine.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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(verb) - To filche; to steale.
--John Bullokar's English Expositor, 1616
January 21, 2018