pill4 (pil)

[ From S. Juste pille or creke to S. Manditus creeke is a mile dim. Leland's Itinerary (1769), iii. 29. ( Hall i well .) The pills being the little streams which wear away a sort of miniature tidal estuary in the mud-banks as they empty themselves into the Severn and the Wye. When he who pill'd his province scapes the laws, And keeps his money, though he lost his cause. der. Seebohm , Eng. Vil. Community, p. 150. Same as pilau .