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pyllour

pyllour is the obsolete form of piller.

Meaning of piller

Noun

piller (plural pillers)

  1. (obsolete) A plunderer or thief.
    • Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote /...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xlviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X

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Forms of pyllour

pluralpyllours

Questions about pyllour

What is pyllour the obsolete form of?
Pyllour is the obsolete form of piller.

Words near pyllour in the dictionary

  1. Pyles
  2. Pylian
  3. Pylians
  4. pyll
  5. Pylle
  6. pyllour
  7. pyllours
  8. pylls
  9. pylochelid
  10. pylochelids
  11. pylogenetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pyllour (page history and authors); piller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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