transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by…
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| 释义 | the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)] > by depredations or extortions (3) to poll and pill1528 transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by… to peel and poll1641 to peel and poll and variants: = to pill and poll at pill, v.1 10. Obsolete. to pick feathers off (a person)1677 In various figurative expressions: †two feathers out of a goose: a very small part of anything. †to gain more feathers: (of a rumour) to assume… |
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