pilolen.
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Editorial misreading (in R. Napier's edition (1882) of A Noble Boke off Cookry) of pilote, Middle English variant of pellet n.1 (see forms at that entry), taken by N.E.D. (1906) to show a noun pilole with the sense ‘a small ball, a pill’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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