Obs. That cheats or tricks; gulling, swindling.

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1592.  Nobody & Someb. (1878), 338. These Cunnicatching knaves would have made lesse than Nobody of him.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., I. i. 128. Your cony-catching Rascalls, Bardolf, Nym, and Pistoll.

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1620.  Melton, Astrolog., 21. The most … Conycatching Art of Astrologie.

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1688.  R. L’Estrange, Brief Hist. Times, II. 115. A Brace of Cony-Catching Impostors.

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