ˈpilliver Now north. dial.
Forms: 1 pylewer, 2 pulewar, 4 peloware, pylwere, 6–7 (9 dial.) pilliver, 7 pillover.
[app. f. OE. pyle, pillow + ON. ver case, cover: cf. ON. koddaver pillow-case = codware2. (But the element -war, -ware may have a different origin; with the forms in -ver cf. pillowber, pillow-bere.)]
A pillow-case. (In the early quots., down to 1440, the meaning seems to be ‘pillow’.)
| a 1100 in Napier O.E. Glosses 222/16 Ceruical, pylewer. a 1200 in MS. Bodley 730 lf. 144 b, Hoc auriculare et hic pulvillus idem sunt .s. oreiler .i. pulewar. et hoc cervical. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 742/24 Hoc cervical, a peloware. c 1440 Jacob's Well 243 Sche..leyde hym in here bed, & a softe pylwere vnder his heuyd. 1581–2 in Best Rur. Econ. (Surtees) 172, 5 pillivers of lininge. 1599 in Antiquary XXXII. 243 Item iiij pillivers & one table clothe, iijs. viijd. 1611 Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 20, iij pillovers. 1655 Ibid. 207, 3 pillovers. 1869 Gibson Folk-speech Cumberland 31 He laid back on his pilliver. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words (E.D.D.), An' a pilliver tuck't inta t' sma' ov his back. |