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  • PILLORY
    A frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and movable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put.
  • PILOT
    A particular ofllcer serving on board a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and the ship's route; or a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, read, or channel, or from More...
  • PILOTAGE
    The navigation of a vessel by a pilot; the duty of a pilot The charge or compensation allowed for piloting a vessel.
  • PILOTAGE AUTHORITIES
    In English law. Boards of commissioners appointed and authorized for the regulation and appointment of pilots, each board having jurisdiction within a prescribed district.
  • PIMP-TENURE
    A very singular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by the old writers, "Wilhelmus Hoppeshort tenet
  • PIN-MONEY
    An allowance set apart by a husband for the personal expensed of his wife, for her dress and pocket money.
  • PINCERNA
    Tn old English law. Buffer ; the king's butler, whose office it was to select out of the cargo of every vessel laden with wine, one cask at the prow and another at the stern, for the king's use. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 22.
  • PINNAGE
    Poundage of cattle.
  • PINNER
    A pounder of cattle; a pound-keeper.
  • PINT
    A liquid measure of half a quart, or the eighth part of a gallon.
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