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Steal sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Steal sb.2 [f. STEAL v.]

1   1.  The act, or an act, of stealing; a theft; the thing stolen or purloined. Chiefly U.S. colloq.

2   [In the first quot. the word is prob. of different formation; if not an error for or variant of STALE sb.1, it may represent an OE. *stǽl f. OTeut. *stǣl- ablaut-var. of *stel- STEAL v.]

3 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 79. Gif þe upfele man … teð him to unwrenches, to stele, oðer refloc, oðer swikedom [etc.].

4 1825.  Jamieson, Steal. 1. A theft. Aberd. 2. The thing stolen. Ibid.

5 1890.  Sat. Rev., 26 July, 110/1. This is an audacious steal from ‘In a Gondola’!

6 1891.  Kipling, Light that Failed, iii. ‘Yes, it is rather a cold blooded steal,’ said Torpenhow critically.

7   b.  U.S. and colonial. A piece of dishonesty or fraud on a large scale; a corrupt or fraudulent transaction in politics.

8 1884.  Reading (Pa.) Morn. Herald, 15 April. When the makers of the constitution of the United States put in that apparently harmless clause giving Congress the power to legislate for the ‘general welfare,’ they little thought what jobs and steals it would ultimately be made the excuse for.

9 1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. lxiv. II. 471. The Rings are the cause of both peculation and jobbery, although St. Louis has had no ‘big steal.’

10 1891.  Weekly Empire (Toronto), 3 Sept., 4/2. The late gigantic steal.

11   † 2.  An act of going furtively. Obs. rare–1.

12 1590.  Tarlton’s Newes Purgatorie, 29. The vickar … forbad it openly: yet it was not so deepely inueighed against, but that diuerse Sundaies they would make a steale thither to breakefast.

13   3.  a. Golf. (see quot. 1897.) b. Base-ball. A stolen run from one base to another.

14 1842.  G. F. Carnegie, Golfiana, in Golfiana Misc. (1887), 81. A most disgusting steal.

15 1867.  Poems on Golf, 53. Though such long steals are now but rarely done.

16 1891.  N. Crane, Base-ball, iv. 36. The runner … must, therefore, look out for an exceptional chance to make the steal.

17 1897.  Encycl. Sport, I. 473/2. (Golf) Steal, a long putt holed unexpectedly.

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