To live by shifts and stratagems.
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.