The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pilcher \Pilch"er\, n. [From Pilch.]
A scabbard, as of a sword. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Pilcher \Pilch"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The pilchard.
Wikipedia
Pilcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- George Pilcher (1801–1855), English aural surgeon and medical reformer
- John Pilcher (1766–1838), English cricketer
- Sir John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), British diplomat
- J. L. Pilcher (1898–1981), American politician
- Joshua Pilcher (1790–1843), American fur trader and Indian agent
- Lewis Pilcher (1871–1941), American academic and architect
- Norman Pilcher (born 1936), British former police officer
- Percy Pilcher (1866–1899), British inventor and aviator
- Robin Pilcher (born 1950), British author, son of Rosamunde
- Rosamunde Pilcher (born 1924), British author, mother of Robin
- Thomas Pilcher (1858-1928), British army officer
- Venn Pilcher (1879–1961), British Anglican bishop and author
- William S. Pilcher (1803–1858), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1857 to 1858
Usage examples of "pilcher".
Several small but mobile British columns, those of Pilcher, of Barker, and of Herbert, under the supreme direction of Charles Knox, were working desperately to head him off.
In the middle district General Charles Knox, with the columns of Pine-Coffin, Thorneycroft, Pilcher, and Henry, were engaged in the same sort of work with the same sort of results.
And here, even though only they will know why their love and loyalty have special meaning for me, I want to thank Easter Straker, Mary Porter, Glenn Smith, Sara Pilcher, Clara Marie Gould, Ruby Wilson, Emma Gibson, Freddie Wright, Cathy Hively, Rosalie Kelly, Bob Summer, Gene Greniker, Rosemary Holton, Fred and Sara Bentley, Grace Wolff, Ann Hyman, Dena Snodgrass, Faith Brunson, Sarah Bell Edmond, Jimmie Harnsberger, Marian Seidel, my sister-in-law' Millie Price, Cindy and Mike Birdsong and tribe, and a beautiful St.