piller

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noun

A plunderer or thief.

OriginAnglo-Norman pilour →
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Meanings

piller1

nounpiller (plural pillers)

plural pillers · alternative pyllour

  1. obsoleteA plunderer or thief.
    1 more example

    Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force

    1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xlviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X

piller2

nounpiller (plural pillers)

plural pillers

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of pillow.

    "What are you layin' on your good bed in the daytime for, messin' up the feathers, and dirtyin' the pillers with your dusty boots?"

    1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Piller3

proper nounPiller (plural Pillers)

plural Pillers

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Anglo-Normanpilour
  2. Englishpiller

Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage)

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with piller

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Cite this entry
APA

piller. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piller

MLA

“piller.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piller. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “piller,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piller.

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