Dictionary entry

Swindle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swin″dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Swindled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Swindling (?).] [See Swindler.] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

Lammote... has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.