Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Robbery; plunder; pillage; rapine.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
pillory .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Plunder; pillage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
plunder ;pillage
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Examples
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Many a pillery is his deadly enemie, and they never meete but they goe together by the eares. "
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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