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 233 pilchardes, now not known but in domestic use, and suche as they pack in hogsheades and other caske, wher they are receyved as a verie welcome reliefe to the sea coaste of that kingdome, and from the coaste revented to their great profit in the inland townes. All this trade into France is now gone. The dryed ware they carrye into Spain, Italie, Venice, and divers places within the Straytes. "Norden, A.D 1584, quoted by Whitaker (Anc. Cath. of Cornw. Vol. 2, p. 249, note.'') (In Celtic Cornish, Hernan and Llean, a pilchard; Heme, pilchards; and Allec, herrings, pil- chards. Borlase.) Piler. •" A farm instrument used to pound or cut the beards from barley in vi innowing." B.v. Piliers. Tufts of long grass, rushes, &c. M.A.c. The name seems derived from the hillocky appearance of large tufts of grass or rushes. Pil in Celtic Cornish means a hillock. Pill. A pool, a creek. Pillas, PilliS; or Pellas. Naked oats, bald, bare, or naked oats without husks. Dr. Paris. Avena nuda. Piles, or Pilez in Celtic Cornish means bare, bald. Also called Pill-corn. (Pilled, or piled, bald. Chancer.) Polwhele, (A.D. 1803), says of it that "it is still used in several places," and describes it as a "small yellow grain. . . and for fattening calves accounted superior to any other nourishment."