Chapter Chopboat to Chout of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

merchants resident in England out of £4,000.] To cheat, trick, defraud; — followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Landor.

Chouse
(Chouse), n.

1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.

3. A swindler. B. Jonson.

Chout
(||Chout) n. [Mahratta chauth one fourth part.] An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.