Chouse

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A trick; sham; imposition.

II. Chouse ·noun A Swindler.

III. Chouse ·noun One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

IV. Chouse ·vt To cheat, trick, defraud;

— followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.