Pilfer
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To pilfer, in the plain and popular sense, means to steal. To charge another with pilfering is to charge him with stealing, and is slander.
Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Black/. 499.