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Piller

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A plunderer or thief. obsolete

    "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 / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force"

  2. 2
    Pronunciation spelling of pillow. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    ""What are you layin' on your good bed in the daytime for, messin' up the feathers, and dirtyin' the pillers with your dusty boots?""

Etymology

Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage)

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