pily

comparative more pily · superlative most pily

1. Like pile or wool.

   the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur

   1903, Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies

2. governmentMarked by many narrow piles (wedges).

   bend pily, chief pily

   3 more examples

   Milles very improperly uses the term for per pale indented throughout, or barry pily.

   1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 48

   Barry pily of eight or and gu.

   1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 54

   (A) A chief pily. (B) Similar, but made to form a bordure with 2 teeth in chief. (C) 3 piles - - - (partly underground). (D) Argent 3 piles checky and on a chief checky 3 annulets or. (E) On a chief pily 3 annulets.

   1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 69