Pyle

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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pyle

m. (?) A pillow :-- Pyle cervical, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 5; Som. 9, 2 : pulvillus, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 60 : pulvinar, 81, 60. Lytel pile pulvillus, 25, 48. Wá ðǽm ðe willaþ under ǽlcne elnbogan lecggean pyle and bolster under ǽlcne hnecean.... Se legeþ pyle under ǽlces monnes elnbogan ... vae his qui consuunt pulvillos sub omni cubito manus, et faciunt cervicalia sub capite universae aetatis.... Pulvillos sub omni cubito manus ponere est ... , Past. 19, 1 ; Swt. 143, 13-15. Hit wæs þeáw mid him ðæt mon ymbe .xii. mónaþ dyde ǽlces consules seti áne pyle hiérre ðonne hit ǽr wæs, Ors. 5, 11 ; Swt. 236, 7. [Prompt. Parv. pyliwe : O. H. Ger. pfuliwi ; n. From Latin pulvinus.] pyle