Sekirov Dictionary

pillow

UK /ˈpɪ.ləʊ/US /ˈpɪ.loʊ/

noun 8
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 1

noun8

•
a soft, filled object at one end of a bed, where someone lying down puts the head
- She, walking like a killer She, another night another pillow Nowhere places, nowhere faces, no one wants to see […] — 1996
•
Any similar head support used for sleep, such as a neck pillow or a hard porcelain pillow.
- She slept with her head on the pillow.
[in the plural] (slang) A woman's breast, especially when large and seemingly soft.
A pillow lava.
A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
The socket of a pivot.
A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
A kind of plain, coarse fustian.

verb1

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To rest as on a pillow.
- ...but Lucy was too thoroughly exhausted to awaken. There she lay, her head pillowed upon her arm, like a child that had cried itself to rest; while Francesca bent over her,... — 1834

forms

pillowed · pillowing · pilloweth · pillows · pillowest

Phrases with pillow

pillow talk
Conversation shared by bedmates, particularly intimate conversation after sexual intercourse.

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