Definitions
Etymologies
- Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller "to plunder" (more at pillage) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Kurbski was yet aliue at my being in Moscouia, & declared vnto me that he spent xvii. daies in ascending the mountaine, & yet could not come to the top thereof, which in their tongue is called Stolp, that is, a piller.”
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“Neither is it of fmall importnuncc, thai the Church is called the piller and ftrong ftay of truth and the houfe of « T; ™”
“Yes, and Obama certainly esclated a "minor zoning dispute" ... in fact a major zoning dispute which is the very piller of the whole conflict. .ie, the palestinians want it for a future state, its considered occupied land and the site of numerous arabic holy sites.”
“Je suis d'accord avec vous que la paix permet a Sassou de piller.”
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“Keamy says, within earshot of Sayid, A black piller of smoke, threw him fifty feet in the air … ripped his guts out.”
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“I of course had little time to think, and dropped a masterful head-first tackle into the lead piller, right in front of ExerCare.”
“The trails and towns were full of memorial statues, usually a piller with a little cage on top holding a Mary or other saint and maybe a candle or some dried flowers in a little vase.”
“My bed white and gold with curtings of pink and silver brocayd held up a top by a goold Qpid who seems always a smilin angillicly hon me, has I lay with my Ed on my piller hall sarounded with the finest”
“America is still the greatest piller for democracy”
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“And when they are to remoue or to take any iourney, the said diuiners goe before them, euen as the cloudie piller went before the children of Israel.”
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