The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pill \Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pilling.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take.
Cf. Peel to plunder.]
To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to
plunder. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill
and to rob.
--Sir T.
Malroy.
Wiktionary
n. Balls of fibre formed on clothing through usage, often called pill or pills. vb. (present participle of pill English)
Wikipedia
Pilling is a village and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is north-northeast of Poulton-le-Fylde, south-southwest of Lancaster and northwest of Preston, in a part of the Fylde known as Over Wyre.
The civil parish of Pilling, which includes the localities of Stake Pool, Scronkey and Eagland Hill, has a total resident population of 1,739, increasing to 2,020 at the 2011 Census.
Pilling is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England. It can also refer to:
- Textile pilling, a surface defect of textiles characterized by small balls of fibres that form on a piece of cloth
- Pilling's Pond, privately owned urban waterfowl reserve and breeding ground in Licton Springs, Seattle, Washington
- James Pilling (1846–1895), American ethnologist
- Dick Pilling (1855–1891), English cricketer
- Doral Pilling (1906–1982), Canadian athlete
- Mary Pilling (born 1938), former English cricketer
- Donald L. Pilling (1943–2008), four-star United States Navy admiral
- Harry Pilling (1943–2012), English cricketer
- Ann Pilling (born 1944), English author and poet
- Joseph Pilling (born 1945), retired British civil servant
- Andy Pilling (born 1969), retired English footballer
- Barney Pilling, British television and film editor
- Clarence Pilling, discoverer of Pilling Figurines, a set of eleven clay figurines made by the Fremont culture
Usage examples of "pilling".
Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his-cold toes, a bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat III Shuvlin, Old Hoeland, (would we go back there now for sounds, pillings and sense?