piken (A.S.) to pick

pyke-harneys (A.N.) [440], plunderers

pykoise (A.N.) [61], a hoe

pil, pyl, pl. piles (A.S.) [331], [332], [417], a pile

†pilche (A.S.) [465], a coat of hair or some rude material. We find the word used by Lydgate, ed. Halliwell, p. 154:—

Houndys for favour wyl nat spare,

To pynche his pylche with greet noyse and soun.

And in Caxton's Reynard the Foxe, cap. v, Reynard having turned hermit, bare "his slayvne and pylche, and an heren sherte therunder."

†pild (A.N.) [500], bald

pilen (A.N.) [422], to rob