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▪ I. piller Obs. or dial.|ˈpɪlə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–6 pylour, 4–5 piloure, 4–7 -our. β. 4–6 pillour, 5 pylowre, 5–7 piller, (5–6 pyllar, 6 -er). See also peeler1.
[ME. pilour, f. pill v.1, prob. after OF. pilleur (1345 in Hatz.-Darm.) in same sense (f. piller to plunder), with later suffix-change: see -er2 3.]
†1. A robber, despoiler, plunderer; a thief; = peeler1 1. Obs.
αc1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6682 Ffor ay þey [Britons] lyue wyþ pylours in drede. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 149 To ransake in the taas of the bodyes dede..The pilours diden bisynesse and cure. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 422/1 Pilours, Robbours, Oppressours. c1440Promp. Parv. 399/1 Pylowre, or he þat pelythe oþer menne, as catchepollys, & oþer lyke, pilator. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) viii. xvii. 344/2 Theues, pylours, extorcyoners.
β1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 303 To preson þe pillourz þat ouere þe pore renneth. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. iv, Pyllars and robbers were comen in to the felde. 1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 31 Suche..oughte rather be clepid pilleris, robberis,..than men of armes chevalerous. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 219 Pillers and pollers of all commonweales. 1596Z. I. tr. Lavardin's Hist. Scanderbeg viii. 324 Two most notable pillers and not pillours of the common wealth. a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 42 The Land then swarmed with Pilours, Robbers, Oppressors of the People. 1674Staveley Rom. Horseleach (1769) 164 That pillar and poller and filcher of our money.
b. Applied to a plant that exhausts the soil.
1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1623) 8 Trees are the greatest suckers and pillers of earth.
2. One who peels; an instrument for peeling; = peeler1 2. Now dial.
1483Cath. Angl. 279/1 A Pillar (A. A Pyllare), vellicator. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pillers, persons, also instruments, for peeling oak trees, &c.
▪ II. piller
obs. f. pillar; var. pillor v. Obs. |