Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pill \Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Pilling}.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take.
   Cf. {Peel} to plunder.]
   To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See {Peel}, to
   plunder. [Obs.] --Spenser.

         Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill
         and to rob.                              --Sir T.
                                                  Malroy.