Pillgarlick

That *to pill* is merely another form of the word *to peel*, appears from the book of Genesis, c. xxx., v. 37, 38: "And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree: and *pilled* white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had *pilled* before the flocks," &c. On first seeing your correspondent's Query, it occurred to me that perhaps "poor Pillgarlick" was in some way akin to "Pillicock," of whom Edgar, in *King Lear*, records that "Pillicock sat on Pillicock's hill;" but the connexion between these two worthies,…