II. iv. 104, 105. tame cheater. A cant term for a

low gamester, especially for a gamester’s decoy. Mistress Quickly understands the word in the sense of escheator, or officer of the exchequer. The Cam¬ bridge editors suggest the emendation chetah, the hunting leopard, known in Europe as early as the fifteenth century. The sentence, you may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound, would indicate at least that Falstaff is playing on the two words cheater and chetah. One would hardly speak of stroking a gamester’s decoy.