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cheery-pike, hiddie-pyke, huidie-pike, pack, pake, peak, peck, peek, peike, peikeen, picket, pickstaff, pick-staff, pike, pikestaff, pikey, pikie, pikin, pikit, piky, pyke, pykie, pykin, pyking, pykit,
pike [pəik]
n. A pointed tip, spike, thorn, quill, a pick, pickaxe, a haystack.
v. To pick out or off, to extract, cull usually by means of a pointed instrument. To peck, pick, nibble. To steal, pilfer, make off with.
pt. pp. pikit adj. Spiked, jagged, barbed.
 
pikie
adj. Spiked, jagged, barbed.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
cheery-pike: A tasty morsel, a treat.
huidie-pike: A miser, skinflint.
otter pike: NEC. The greater weever Trachinus draco .
pikin: Picking, pecking, nicking.
pikestaff: A pikestaff.
sea pike: The hake Merluccius merluccius.
tak a pike at: To be piqued at.
pile, piler, pyle,
pile [pəil]
n. A pile, a heap.
v. To increase speed by moving the body or feet.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
piler: A home-made cart.
pile, piles, pillins, pills, pyle, pyles, pyles,
pile [pəil]
n. A single small blade of grass, a blade or stalk of hay etc. A grain of corn, barley. Hail, a snowflake. A leaf of tea etc. A husk, a pellet of shot.
pl. piles Small tufts on washed woolens.
pilget, pilgit,
pilgit [ˈpɪlgɪt]
n. MN. A disagreement, argument.
pilgrimer,
pilgrimer [ˈpɪlgrɪmər]
n. A pilgrim.
pilch, pilk, pyilk, pylk,
pilk [pɪlk, pəilk]
n. A husk, an empty shell. A picking, morsel, scrap.
v. To pick out, shell, peel. To steal or pilfer.
pelk, pelkie, pilk, pilkie,
pilk [I.Ork. pɪlk, pəilk]
n. A small slightly-built boy, a slip of a lad.
dim. pilkie A a sobriquet for the Devil.
pill, pillie, pilly, pilti, piltie, sootipillie, suitipillie,
pill [I.Ork. pɪl]
n. The penis.
dim. pillie, piltie A young ling Molva molva.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
suitipillie: The bulrush Typha latifolia.
pilla, pillaber, pillabere, pillae, pillaebeir, pillaebere, pillie, pillie, pillowber, pillowbere, pilly, pilly, puhlae, puhllie, pyllie,
pillae [pɪlə]
also pillie
n. A pillow.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
pillaebeir [-ˈbiːr, -beːr]: A pillowcase.
pilarachie, pileurachie, pillarachie, pilleurichie, pitlarichie,
pilleurichie [pɪˈluːrɪxɪ]
n. (nonce) A to-do, hullaballoo, hubbub.

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