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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Middle English forms of pillow.

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Examples

  • "Vell, if mens iss madt dere, vy dondt you go pelow?"

    Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor 1909

  • "It is you dot will get der sack -- der sack from dis life here pelow!"

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "But she shall not go pelow now," said the young gillie, looking down at the smooth, glassy current.

    Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Ay, but like all things here pelow," remarked Ian Anderson, who possessed in a high degree the faculty of disputation, "it's not likely to last long."

    The Eagle Cliff 1859

  • “I go to ze wall, ant will leap down, pot zere is vater pelow, ant I will not spoil my last tressing, so I go to ze gate.

    Boyhood 2003

  • "I gives you my word, poys, dot it seemed I was on der top of a mountain, mit a fine chance my pones to preak on der rocks pelow.

    Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps Archibald Lee Fletcher

  • "I go to ze wall, ant will leap down, pot zere is vater pelow, ant I will not spoil my last tressing, so I go to ze gate.

    Boyhood Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • How should she pe seeing with all ta earth apove her -- and ta cravestone too tat I know my poy Malcolm will pe laying on ta top of his old cranfather to keep him waarm, and let peoples pe know tat ta plind piper will be lying town pelow wite awake and fery uncomfortable? "

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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