Meanings
- obsoleteplunder; pillage
And then concussion , rapine , pilleries , Their Catalogue of accusations fill
1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC
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pillery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pillery
“pillery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pillery. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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