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peilion, pillion, pullion,
pillion [ˈpɪljən, ˈpʌljən]
n. A sack stuffed with rags. A pad or cushion used as a saddle, also attached behind a saddle for a second rider or for carrying luggage.
pilot, pilotit, piolet, pioletet,
pilot [ˈpəilət]
n. A pilot.
v. To pilot.
pt. pp. pilotit
palshac, pelsh, peltin, pilch, pilchach, pilchach, pilschach, pilsh, pilsheck, pilsich, pitch, pulschach,
pilsh [pɪlʃ]
also pilshock
n. An ill-fitting, clumsy garment, an ugly, thick article of dress. A triangular piece of material bound over a baby's napkin to keep it in place. A short fat person.
peltag, pilltock, piltack, piltag, piltak, piltake, piltek, piltick, piltock,
piltock [ˈpɪltək, NN.b. ˈpɪltəg]
n. NN.b. I.Ork. A coalfish Pollachius virens in about the second year of its development.
charnle, charnle-pins, peen, peen$d, peend, peened, peen-heid, peenie, peent, pein, pin, pinheid, pinner, pinnie, pinnt, pint, shaarlpin, sharl, sharl-pin, sjarl-pin,
pin [pɪn]
also peen [pin]
n. A metal pin. A peg used to control or regulate the tension or speed of a spinning-wheel or similar piece of machinery or the pitch of a stringed musical instrument. A clothes peg. The hub of a circle or wheel. col. A leg.
dim. pinnie, peenie
v. To pin. To move slowly (from pin leg - a wooden leg). I.Ork. To move with speed and vigour.
pt. pp. pint, pinned, peent, peened
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
charnle-pins [ˈtʃarnəl-]: The pins on which the hinges of doors or machinery turn.
lin-pin: A linchpin.
peen-heid, peenie-heid: S. The young fry of the minnow Phoxinus phoxinus or three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus.
pinner: A piece of wood used to fasten or stabilise a structure. WC. A young mackerel Scomber scombrus.
 
See preen also.
kinsh, kinshin, penshin, pinch, pincher, pinchers, pinchin, pinchit, pincht, pinsh, pinshears, pinshers, pinshin, punch, punchin,
pinch [pɪnʃ]
n. A pinch. A crowbar.
v. To lever with crowbar. To use with excessive economy.
pincht
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
pinchers [ˈpɪnʃərz]: Tweezers, crowbar, pliers.
pinchin: Gripping or squeezing tightly.
peencil, pincel, pincil, pinsil, pinsl,
pincil [ˈpɪnsɪl]
n. A pencil.
peen, peend, peendin, peenin, pin, pind, pindin, pinin, pinn, pinnd, pinndin, pinnin, poind, poindin, poinding,
pind [pɪn(d), N. pin]
n. An act of poinding, a distraint, seizure of goods for debt.
v. To poind, seize, to distrain.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
pinder: A official who seizes property.
pindin [ˈpɪn(d)ɪn, N. ˈpin(d)ɪn]: A seizure of property.
pine, pyne,
pine [pəin]
also pine tree.
n. A pine tree.
pain, painfu, penn, peyn, peynfu, pine, pine$t, pinefu, piner, pinin, poiner, pyn$t, pyne, pyne$t, pynefu, pyner, pynin, pynner, pynour,
pine [pəin]
n. Pain. Suffering, distress or pain, either physical or mental.
pl. pines
v. To cause pain and suffering, to torment, torture. To put oneself to trouble, take pains, exert oneself at some task. To suffer pain or sorrow. To languish, to waste away from disease.
pt. pp. pine't, pined
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
piner [ˈpəinər]: Any animal that is not thriving. A mason's labourer, a peat-futherer, a hotel porter.
pinefu [-fə S. -fɛ, -fɪ, EC. -fe, WC. -fɑ, N. -fɛ, U. I. -fu]: Painful.
pinin: A wasting sickness.
sair pine: Agony.
yaukin pine: Severe pain, agony.

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