pillas Cornish dial.
(ˈpɪləs)
Also pilez, pillez, pillis, -us, peallas.
The Naked Oat or pilcorn.
(In quot. 1837 applied to the Naked or Pilled Barley.)
| 1815 G. B. Worgan View Agric. Cornwall 66 The Avena Nuda, provincially called Pilez, or Pillas... One gallon of Pilez. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 31/2 Amongst the varieties of grain raised in Cornwall, we may notice the naked barley, which is there called Pillez. 1846 in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Pellas. 1847–78 Halliwell, Pelles, a kind of oats. Cornw. 1882 Jago Cornw. Gloss., Pillas, Pillis, or Pellas, naked oats, bald, bare, or naked oats without husks. |