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▪ I. pilch, n.|pɪltʃ|
Forms: 1 pyl(e)ce, 3–6 pilche, 4 pilchche, 4–6 pylche, 6– pilch.
[OE. pylece, ad. med.L. pellicea a furred garment, fem. of L. pelliceus adj., made of skins, f. pellis a skin. Cf. pelisse.]
†1. An outer garment made of skin dressed with the hair; in later use, a leathern or coarse woollen outer garment. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1000ælfric Alcuin's Interrog. Segewulfi in Anglia (1883) VII. 30 Hwi worhte god pylcan adame & euan æfter þam gylte? a1100Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 328/11 Pellicie, pylece. a1225Ancr. R. 362 He is of þe te-tore uolke, þet to-tereð his olde kurtel, & to-rendeð þe olde pilche of his deadliche uelle. c1250Gen. & Ex. 377 Two pilches weren ðurȝ engeles wroȝt, And to adam and to eue broȝt. a1300Siriz 225 Warme pilce and warme shon, With that min hernde be wel don. c1390Chaucer Proverbs 4 Affter heet komeþe colde, No man caste his pilchche away. 1416Will of Holt (Somerset Ho.), Pelche de foxe. c1440Lydg. Hors, Shepe & G. 366 Ther is also made of sheepis skyn, Pilchis & glovis to dryve awey the cold. c1440Promp. Parv. 397/2 Pylche, pellicium, pellicia. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke vii. 85 Clothed in a pilche of a camels hyde. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1613/1 Some wandred to and fro in sheepes pilches, in goates pilches, forsaken, oppressed, afflicted. 1602Dekker Satiromastix Wks. 1873 I. 231 Ile beate five pound out of his leather pilch. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Pilch.., a woollen or fur garment [obs.]. 1853Stevenson Anglo-Sax. Chron. 127 Of costly pilches, and of grey skins. 1901Archæol. Jrnl. Mar. 4 Every canon had..a pilch or cassock (pellicea).
2.
†a. A rug or pad laid over a saddle. Obs.
b. A light frameless saddle for children: = pad n.3 2.
1552Huloet, Pilche for a saddle, instratum. 1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1895/4 Taken away.., a Pye-bald Gelding,..with a Pannel and Pilch on his Back. a1728Kennett Lansd. MS. 1033 lf. 297 A course shagged piece of rug laid over a Saddle for Ease of a Rider is in our midland parts calld a pilch. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 397 Take also with you a light saddle without a tree, commonly called a pilch. 1900List Civil Serv. Supply Assoc., Saddles..Child's Pilch, all over quilted hogskin, for boy or girl.
3. A triangular flannel wrapper for an infant, worn over the diaper or napkin.
1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Pilch..now used for a flannel cloth to wrap about the lower part of young children. a1728Kennett Lansd. MS. 1033 lf. 297 A piece of flannel or other woolen put under a child next the clout is in Kent calld a Pilch. 1799M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Childr. III. 91 note, An error worthy of remark.., is, that of wearing a pilch (as it is called), an old fashion still too much in use. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pilch, a flannel wrapper for an infant. 1861–80Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. §2626 Baby-linen..4 pilches,..2 waterproof pilches,..4 dozen napkins.
4. attrib. and Comb., as pilch-clout, pilch-maker.
a1225Ancr. R. 212 Þe deoflen schulen pleien mid ham..& dvsten ase enne pilcheclut, euchon touward oðer. 13..Coer de L. 6736 Here armure no more I ne doute, Thenne I doo a pylche-cloute. c1483Caxton Dialogues 14 Wauburge the pilchemaker Formaketh a pylche well.
▪ II. pilch, v. Now dial.|pɪltʃ|
Forms: 3 pileken, pilken, 6– pilch, 9 Sc. pilk.
[Origin uncertain. Cf. LGer. pül(e)ken, pölken to pick (up den knaken pülken to pick a bone); Norw. and Færöese pilka to pick, scrape, prick. Cf. also OF. peluchier, OPicard pelukier, plusquier (mod.Picard pluquer) to pick, clean, peck: see pluck v.]
intr. To pick, pluck; to pilfer; to rob.
a1225Ancr. R. 84 Ȝet wolde he teteren & pileken [v.rr. pilewin, picken], mid his bile, roted stinkinde fleshs, as is reafnes kunde. Ibid. 86 Uor euere me schal þene cheorl pilken [v.r. plokin] & peolien, uor he is ase þe wiði þet sprutteð ut þe betere þet me hine ofte croppeð. 1570Levins Manip. 130/10 Pilch, miche, suffurari. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 33 Some steale, some pilch, some all away filch. 1665Jas. Fraser Polichronicon (S.H.S. 1905) 163 The country was free from all manner of thift and pilching. 1808Jamieson, To Pilk,..1. To shell peas,..also, to pick periwinkles out of the shell;..2. To pilfer..as ‘She has pilkit his pouch’. 1900Eng. Dial. Dict., Pilch, to pilfer, filch (S. Worcester, Glouc.). |