Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Filch

Filch (filch) , transitive verb

[Compare Anglo-Saxon feolan to stick to, Old High German felhan, felahan, to hide, Icelandic fela, Gothic filhan to hide, bury, Prov. English feal to hide slyly, Old English felen.]

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Fain would they filch that little food away. — Dryden
But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. — Shakespeare