pilk, II, 473, 16: pick, collect. See pickle.
pilleurichie. See pitleurachie.
pin, pinn, an implement for raising the fastening of a door. tirled the pin, IV, 390, 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, 23; II, 141, 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, I 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, 11. thirled at the pin, II, 121, 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16. twirld at the pin, IV, 390, b 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104, 14; IV, 391, 3; 415, 6. “The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled.” W. Forbes. (See tirled.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, 10; 468, 15; upon a pin, III, 105, 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, 17; chapped at the pin, I, 481, 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, 3); if not, the meaning must be, knocked at the door at the place of the latch. that so priuilye knowes the pinn, I, 433, 25, implies that there was some secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See gin.
pin, gallows-pin, gallou-pine, I, 146, 25; 150, 17; III,
388, 18; V, [247], 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, [26], 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.
pin, v., pin my windows in, V, [295], 5, 6: fasten. See penned.
pindee, II, 326, 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly, for in, as penned in, II, 330, G 3.
pinder, pindar, pinner, III, 131 ff., A 1-5, etc.; B 1-3; II, 484, C 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.
pine, pyne, I, 464, 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., 4, 23; V, [219], 25: suffering, pain. Goddës, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, 391; V, [79], 18: suffering, distress, passion.
pine, I, 453, 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.