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pinpillow
Also 6 pynpyllowe, 7 pimpillowe, 8 pimpillo, pimploe, 9 pimplo.
[f. pin n.1 3 + pillow: cf. the synon. pin-bolster.]
†1. A pincushion. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 254/2 Pynpyllowe to stycke pynnes on. 1583Rates of Customs D vij, Pinpillowes of cloth for Children. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 131 We made thereof..purses, pimpillowes, sleeues for little children. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. vii. 91 They of S. Christophers stick Pins on their Noses, making their Noses serve for Pinpillows.
2. The Prickly Pear: so called from its thick stems beset with spines.
1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 26 By the force of the wind..thrown into a prickly Pimploe hedge. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Pimpillo, Cactus. 1866Treas. Bot., Pinpillow, Opuntia curassavica. 1889Farmer Dict. Amer., Pimplo, a Barbadian term for the prickly pear..a corruption of ‘pin-pililow’. |