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What does pilfer mean?

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Verb
  1. To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
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Oh, yes, we thought it fair game to try and steal other people wood but woe betide anyone who tried to pilfer ours.
For example, yellow pine chipmunks and deer mice pilfer each other's cached seeds under wet conditions.
An electro-magnetic pilfer safeguard, accessible only by using a controller from inside the building, locks and unlocks the front panel.
Within a population of scatter hoarders, the ability of individuals to pilfer food from one another probably varies.
After all, these nightly visitors aren't there to snitch snapdragons or pilfer peas.
The pilfer safeguard protects mail from unauthorized access without impeding the posting of mail.

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