Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pilfer

Pilfer , intransitive verb

[Old French pelfrer. See Pelf.]

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

Pilfer , transitive verb

To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. — Cowper