To steal, or slip into one’s bag, as a poacher or pilferer who slyly slips into his bag what he has contrived to purloin.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.