pillery
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pillery
- (obsolete) plunder; pillage
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- And then concussion , rapine , pilleries ,
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References
[edit]“pillery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.