To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it. Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck-farthing.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Chouder * Christ-cross RowNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes