Definition of "chate"

"You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily.

1899, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul the Peddler‎

I'm up to your tricks, you young spalpeen, thryin' to chate a poor widder out of her money."

1875, Horatio Alger, The Young Outlaw‎

"But ye better beg than chate me out of me honest dues.

1866, Oliver Optic, Hope and Have‎

But they'll murdher my boy when they find out the chate," said Mrs. Rooney. "

1873, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI.‎

With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.

1885, Grace Greenwood, Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children‎

That there's been chatin' yez are all agreed; only yez can't identify the chate.

1865, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs‎