pily

pile +‎ -y

pily (comparative more pily, superlative most pily)

1. Like pile or wool.
   • 1903, Charles Henry Lane, Rabbits, Cats and Cavies:

     the thick, fine, short undercoat, or pily fur

2. (heraldry) Marked by many narrow piles (wedges).

   bend pily, chief pily

   • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 48:

     Milles very improperly uses the term for per pale indented throughout, or barry pily.

   • 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 54:

     Barry pily of eight or and gu.

   • 1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 69:

     (A) A chief pily. (B) Similar, but made to form a bordure with 2 teeth in chief. (C) 3 piles - - - (partly underground). (D) Argent 3 piles checky and on a chief checky 3 annulets or. (E) On a chief pily 3 annulets.

“pily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪlɪ]
• Homophones: pili, pyly

pily

1. inflection of pít:
   1. inanimate masculine plural past active participle
   2. feminine plural past active participle