"to bilk" with object not a person

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> is the trans. sense with object not a person interesting?

FWIW, IMO, it is. I'd like to see the usage recalled to life.
Why bilk the language? ;-)

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