Obs. exc. Sc. Also 5 stolethery, stoltherie, -ye. [f. stulþ, STOUTH + -ERY.] Theft, stealing; also stolen goods.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 8. The money at þou hase taken of þi bruther, it is stoltherye. Ibid., 9. Euer sen I forsuke to take swilk stolethery I hafe abundid & waxin ryche of gudi[s]. Ibid., 222. Þe fadur þeroff, garte call it Latro, becauce it was getten be stoltherie.
1864. Latto, Tammas Bodkin, x. 92. To find oot the loons that had received the unleisum stoutherie.
