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单词 pilling and polling
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pilling and polling
b. pilling and polling (also polling and pilling, peeling and polling, etc.): the action of plundering, stripping bare by robbery, or ruining by depredation or extortion. Obsolete.The literal sense is ‘the action of removing skin and hair’; cf. to pill and poll at pill v.1 10.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun]
purchasec1325
ridding1347
riflinga1350
despoilingc1374
preya1375
spoilingc1380
pillagea1393
shavaldrya1400
destrition14..
pillingc1400
pillery1433
spulyieingc1440
rapinea1450
spoliationc1460
depopulation1462
spulyie1464
depredation1483
despoil1483
predationa1500
pilferya1513
pollinga1513
spoil1532
pilling and pollinga1535
pilfering1548
expilation1563
rapt1584
escheat1587
fleecing1593
spoilage1597
depilation1611
manubiary1616
pillaging1629
plundering1632
exspoliation1634
peeling1641
despoliation1658
plunder1661
plunderage1700
spoliage1806
despoilment1822
a1535 T. More Hist. Edward V (1641) 150 Among so much pilling and polling, among so many taxes and talliages, of the which there was never end, and often times no neede.
1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies sig. Qiijv Doth not the adulterer gyue his mynde..to polling and pyllyng of other?
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. G2 Heers worse pilling & polling thẽ amongst my countrymen the Vsurers.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B4v His Father dying in ignominie, and at the Gallowes, his Estate confiscate for pilling [1870 peeling] and polling the people.
1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. ii. ii. 10 The pilling and polling of her Provinces, which hapned through the Avarice and Luxury of her Nobility.
1710 W. Drummond Sc. Gentleman's Let. 5 Amongst so many Taxes and Taillages, so much Pilling and Polling.
1789 J. Holtrop New Eng. & Dutch Dict. II. 33 Aspersing, extortion, exaction; a pilling and polling, fleecing.
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