The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filch \Filch\ (f[i^]lch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filched (f[i^]lcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Filching.] [Cf. AS. feolan to stick to, OHG. felhan, felahan, to hide, Icel. fela, Goth. filhan to hide, bury, Prov. E. feal to hide slyly, OE. felen.] To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Fain would they filch that little food away.
--Dryden.
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: filch)
Usage examples of "filched".
Fur thermore, it was the dear prince who infiltrated LEO programs and filched the strand formula.
She also filched several packets of food, spoiling someone's picnic lunch but filling the void in her belly.
She spent the early morning hours using the metal sheets she had filched to arrange an umbrella over the sled’s siliplex canopy.
As a younger man he would never have filched so much as a berry or an apple from a neighbor's yard.
They ate the last of the ham and cheese Wolf had filched from Faldor's pantry and then spread their blankets on the ground beneath the wagons.
He brooded for a moment over his memories of the stone crypt from which he and the Mouser and Fissif had filched the jeweled skull.
While they had sought to rescue the filched eye and destroy the blasphemous thieves who had stolen it, the eye had taken care of itself very nicely.
Jason, who cared less for the thrashing than for the frown upon his deity’s face, promised to tread a path of rectitude, and made such efforts to keep to this that in a very short time nothing more than a warning word to him, or, at the worst, a command to restore whatever he might have filched from some chance-met acquaintance, was necessary to preserve the utmost harmony between the Viscount and his cronies.
The scabbard and crossguard he secured with a length of twine filched from a net float.
Nix replied with curses, but showed up the next day with cushions filched from the apprentice’s cots.
A Sergeant, marching behind and to the dead boy's flank, filched six guineas from the corpse's tail pocket without even breaking step.