[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of cheating or ‘doing out’ of one’s due.

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1687.  T. Brown, Saints in Uproar, Wks. 1730, I. 77. A pack of vermin, bred up to … bilking of their landladies.

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1756.  Gray’s-Inn Jrnl., I. 177. The … bilking of Waiters at Places of Entertainment.

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