Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cabbage \Cab"bage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p {Cabbaged} (-b[asl]jd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Cabbaging} (-b[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [F. cabasser,
   fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to
   cheat.]
   To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining
   after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

         Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.