piner-pig, III, 385, 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.
pingo, pingo white, IV, 213, 12: pinkie (?).
Pinnatree, The Gold, V, [141] b: name of a ship.
pinner. See pinder.
pint, point.
Pirie, in Pirie’s chair you’ll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429, 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W. D. Geddes suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish “ill chiel.” Professor Cappen writes: “Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent towards him with his head on the pit of the other’s stomach; a third sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie’s chair, or hell, was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie’s chair probably indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a wrong answer.”
pistol-pece, III, 432, 9: pistol.
pit, I, 86, 31; 467, 17; V, [219], 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, 4: be my death. pit back, IV, 510, W 3: stop the growth or development of. pret. pat. p. p. pitten, putten.
pith, hammer o the, II, 374, B 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith’s anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.
pitleurachie, pilleurichie, III, 320, A a 20, b 20: hubbub, discord. See lierachie.