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▪ I. † pilcher1 Obs.
A term of abuse, frequent at the beginning of the 17th c. It has been conjecturally explained as meaning ‘One who wears a pilch or leathern jerkin or doublet’, or ‘One who pilches, a thief’; in two instances it is either fig. from pilcher, pilchard, the fish, or punningly associated with that word.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, Whither doe you dragge the gent'man? you mungrels, you curres, you ban-dogs, wee are Captaine Tucca, that talke to you, you inhumane pilchers. 1602Middleton Blurt, Master-Constable i. ii, Pilcher, thou'rt a most pitiful dried one. a1619Fletcher Wit without M. iii. iv, Upbraid me with your benefits, you pilchers. a1625― Women Pleas'd ii. iv, Hang him, Pilcher, There's nothing loves him: his owne Cat cannot endure him. a1640Day Parl. Bees iv, Smoaked Pilcher vanish!
▪ II. † pilcher2 Obs. rare.
[? Extended from pilch.]
1. = pilch n. 1.
1635Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) IV. 104, I haue..written to Mr Ned Boyle to furnish him with pilchers.
2. A scabbard. (Apparently contemptuous.)
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 84 Will you pluck your Sword out of his Pilcher by the eares? |