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Piller   Listen
noun
Piller  n.  One who pills or plunders. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Piller" Quotes from Famous Books



... walked over an' stuck his naked finger right into the pup's mouth. I looked to see it bit off, but the pup only opened his eyes, looked foolish, an' tramped down another acre of imaginary grass; finally goin' to sleep again an' usin' my feet for a piller. ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... wrongfullie condemned: some to death, and some in the forfeitures of their goods; others were so intangled in sutes and causes, that by no means they knew how to get out, but continuallie were tossed from post to piller; in such wise that in their minds they curssed the time that euer ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (1 of 12) - William the Conqueror • Raphael Holinshed

... laid him cornerways on the deacon's cross o' tiger-lilies. 'N' he did n't stop 't that, neither; he took his wings 'n' sewed 'em to each side of a red heart left over from a euchre-party, 'n' laid the whole on Mr. Jilkins's piller o' pansies, so the deacon could n't in conscience feel 't anythin' 's he 'd paid for was wasted. I 've said all along, 'n' I'll say ag'in here 'n' now, 't it was all one o' the prettiest things I ever see; 'n' I was n't the only one ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs • Anne Warner

... none, as I understand it," said Bishop, "except a silver watch. That was all snug under the old man's piller." ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... 'em, miss," Becky answered in quite a matter-of-fact manner. "There mostly is rats an' mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I've got so I don't mind 'em s' long as they don't run over my piller." ...
— A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the tree stands a tall piller sixty-four feet high, covered with strange writin'. As I looked at it I thought I would gin a dollar bill to have read that writin', no knowin' what strange secrets of the past would have been revealed to me. But I couldn't read it, it is dretful writin'. Josiah sometimes makes ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

... les soldats avaient mieux seconde la bravoure de leur chef, l'armie de Charles VIII. etait perdue sans ressource—Ils se disperserent pour piller et laisserent aux Francais le temps de ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson

... me? slight, I wood I had knowne that, tother Day, I thought I had met him in Paules, and he had bin any body else but a piller, I wood have runne him ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III • Various



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