different between pillage vs peeler

English

Etymology

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin pili?, probably a figurative use of Latin pil? (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l.?d?/, /?p?l.?d?/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?

Verb

pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
   • 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,

     Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

Translations

Noun

pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)

1. The spoils of war.

2. The act of pillaging.
   • 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo

     An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.

Synonyms

• (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty

Translations

French

Etymology

piller +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ja?/

Noun

pillage m (plural pillages)

1. pillage

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pillage.

Noun

pillage m (plural pillages)

1. (Jersey) looting

Related terms

• pilleux (“looter”)

Old French

Noun

pillage m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)

1. pillaging

Related terms

• piller

Descendants

• ? English: pillage

English

Alternative forms

• Peeler

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pi?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pi?l?/
• Rhymes: -i?l?(?)

Etymology 1

From the surname of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Irish constabulary and London's police force; compare bobby, from the given name.

Noun

peeler (plural peelers)

1. (Britain, slang, dated) A police officer.
   • 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark:

     A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;

     He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.

     And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—

     'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:police officer.

Related terms

• bobby

Etymology 2

From Middle English peler, piller, pyllare, pilour, pelure, pelour, equivalent to peel +? -er.

Noun

peeler (plural peelers)

1. One who peels.
   1. A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
   2. A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
   3. (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
   4. (obsolete) One who peels or pillages.
2. A device for peeling fruit or vegetables.
   1. A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.

      potato peeler

   2. An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
3. Something to be peeled.
4. Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
   1. An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
5. (surfing) An ideal wave.
6. (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
7. Someone who breaks horses.

Translations

Anagrams

• Leeper, repeel