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 Pil’lory.Pilot Balloon (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pilot,
 
according to Scaliger, is from an old French word, pile (a ship).   1
 


 Pil’lory.Pilot Balloon (A). 

 
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