† pierellen.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A heap of stones filling a ditch.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1699/2 Pierelle, a mass of stones filling a ditch and covered with clay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1875- to scant out
- to scape or escape a scouring
- to scape scathely
- to scare a person blue
- to scare a person rigid
- to scare a person silly
- to scare a person stupid
- to scare out
- to scare out of one's senses
- to scare seven bells out of a person
- to scare someone's daylights out
- to scare the daylight out of
- to scare the daylights out of
- to scare the lights out of
- to scare the lights out of a person
- to scare the lights out of a thing
- to scare the liver and lights out of
- to scare the liver and lights out of a person
- to scare the liver and lights out of a thing
- to scare the living daylight out of
- to scare the living daylights out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
- to scare the pants off