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[Kail Pendragon]

WhiZard wrote...

Looked into etymologies, and for the word "cheat" this does seem to be an American versus British split off on the word (with British sources of course not well considering American English etymology). It seems that the 1640 "swindling and defrauding" notion completely overtook British usage even fairly early on, while American usage still used fragments of the original notion of "falling" from rules or regulations.

The in depth search did lead me to a free and lengthy etymology listing  for British English (using prior OED etymology synonyms) which can be found at The Historical Thesaurus, which may help in solving later disagreements in language usage (so long as it isn't American vs. British).

Thank you Whizard for the enrichening historical perspective.