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单词 piller
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pillern.

Forms:

α. Middle English piloure, Middle English pilouur, Middle English pylowre, Middle English–1500s pylour, Middle English–1600s pilour; Scottish pre-1700 pilour, pre-1700 pylour.

β. late Middle English pyllour, late Middle English–1500s pillour; Scottish pre-1700 pellour, 1800s pillour.

γ. late Middle English pillarer (probably transmission error), late Middle English pyllare, late Middle English–1500s pyllar, late Middle English–1800s piller, 1500s pyller, 1600s–1700s pillar.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently partly a borrowing from French. Apparently partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French pilour ; pill v.1, -or suffix, -er suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently partly < Anglo-Norman pilour (compare Middle French pilleur (1345); < piller (see pilyie v.) + -our -our suffix), and partly < pill v.1 + either -or suffix or -er suffix1; the word thus apparently shows a merger of two etymologically distinct words (compare also discussion at pill v.1). Compare peeler n.1 N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pi·ləɹ) /ˈpɪlə(r)/.
Obsolete.
1.
a. A plunderer; a robber, a thief; = peeler n.1 1a. Also in early use: an extortioner.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]
riflera1350
ravenerc1384
pillerc1385
preyerc1390
raptora1398
peelera1425
despoiler1467
spulyierc1475
pillardc1485
ruggerc1485
pollera1513
booty-fellow1530
spoiler1535
caterpillar1541
kitea1556
ransacker?1576
predator1581
lurdan1589
worm1591
scraper1598
pillager?1611
ravager1611
bird of preya1616
depredator1626
plunderer1639
expilator1658
shark1713
depredationist1828
spoliator1831
rapiner1843
ravisher1851
α.
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1007 The pilours diden bisynesse and cure After the bataille.
1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 422 No Lorde..shal wetyngly receyve..Pilours, Robbours, Oppressours of the poeple.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 399 Pylowre or he þat pelythe oþer menne, as catchepollys, pilator.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) viii. xvii. 344/2 Theues, pylours, extorcyoners.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 42 The Land then swarmed with Pilours, Robbers, Oppressers of the People.
β. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. 2800 (MED) The saide Gaulteer..Mette..dyuers soudiours..Which that tyme as brigavntis & pillours Took this Gaulteer.a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1237 Pyllours and robbers were com into the fylde to pylle and to robbe many a full noble knyght..of..many a ryche juell.1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 2582 in Wks. (1931) II. 238 Put first the thrie pilouris [1602 pellours] in to the prissone strang.1596 Z. Jones tr. J. de Lavardin Hist. Scanderbeg viii. 324 Two most notable pillers and not pillours of the common wealth.1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. iii. 55 A robber on the highway, a pillour and oppressor of the people.γ. a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 28 (MED) And so þey, of pillers and predons made..dwellers, vsurpyd stylle þe same parte of Brytayne.c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 31 (MED) And suche as ben of that inordynat condicion of covetise and rappyne oughte rather be clepid pilleris, robberis, extorcioneris than men of armes chevalerous.1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 219 Pillers and pollers of all commonweales.1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech xxi. 164 That pillar and poller and filcher of our money.1702 J. Barnes Serm. 6 Oct. (1703) 9 Who was this Matthew? A Thief, an Impostor, a Piller, a Robber, an Extortioner.?1750 S. Hammond New Introd. Learning Piller, pillager.
b. A plant that impoverishes the soil; = peeler n.1 1b. rare.
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the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > that takes too much soil
peeler1580
piller1615
gross feeder1845
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1623) 8 Trees are the greatest suckers and pillers of earth.
2. A person who peels; an instrument for peeling; = peeler n.1 2. English regional in later use.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > one who or that which
piller?c1475
peelera1500
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 95v A Pyllare [1483 BL Add. 89074 a Pillarer], vellicator.
1747 New Spelling Bk. viii. 108 Piller, that pills bark. Pillar, a post.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pillers, persons, also instruments, for peeling oak trees, &c.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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