verb
(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
(transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
(transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
noun
(transitive, dialectal) A stratagem.