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pillas Cornish dial.|ˈpɪləs|
Also pilez, pillez, pillis, -us, peallas.
The Naked Oat or pilcorn.
(In quot. 1837 applied to the Naked or Pilled Barley.)
1815G. B. Worgan View Agric. Cornwall 66 The Avena Nuda, provincially called Pilez, or Pillas... One gallon of Pilez. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 31/2 Amongst the varieties of grain raised in Cornwall, we may notice the naked barley, which is there called Pillez. 1846in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Pellas. 1847–78 Halliwell, Pelles, a kind of oats. Cornw. 1882Jago Cornw. Gloss., Pillas, Pillis, or Pellas, naked oats, bald, bare, or naked oats without husks. |