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pile3 (1300)

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[ FEW: 8,475a pila; Gdf: 6,158a pile 2; GdfC: 10,338a pile 1 /10,338b pile 3; TL: 7,935 pile 4; DEAF:  pile 2; DMF:  pile 1; TLF:  pile 1 / pile 3; OED:  pile n.2 / pile n.5; MED:  pile n.1 / pil( n.4; DMLBS: 2280a pila 3 ]
pil,  pyle  

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1curr.implementfinan.small upright iron pillar forming the lower part of a minting apparatus, and used to produce the impress on the reverse side of a coin
( 1300 )  Vous enveyames del dit eschekier [...] deux peire de cuyns noveaux en .vj. peces. E puis [...] une peire nove en treis peces, c'est a savoir a chescone peire une pile e .ij. trusseux  pile n.2 (etym.)
2pile, series of weights fitting one within or upon another so as to form a solid form
( 1403-04 )  en defaute de .ij. piles du pois poisant .viij. marcz, dount l’un fust trop legier et l’aitre trop poisans par .ij. unces  280
implementpile balance, weighing device using a series of weights fitting one within or upon another so as to form a solid form
( 1423 )  Item, .i. pile pur poiser or et argent, pris .vi. s. .viij. d.  iv 234.825
ne... croiz ne pile
1fig.neither head or tail (of a coin), nothing at all
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  la povere gent menour, Qui propre n’ont ne pil ne crois  26133
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