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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p {Cabbaged} (-b[asl]jd);
p. pr & vb n. {Cabbaging} (-b[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. cabasser,
fr OF cabas theft; cf F. cabas basket, and OF cabuser to
cheat.]
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining
after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.
--Arbuthnot.
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