PILLOWING

Verb

pillowing

present participle of pillow

Noun

pillowing (countable and uncountable, plural pillowings)

Material used to make pillows.

Source: Wiktionary

PILLOW

Pil"low, n. Etym: [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.]

1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

2. (Mach.)

Definition: A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]

3. (Naut.)

Definition: A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

4. A kind of plain, coarse fustian. Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace.

– Pillow bier Etym: [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. büre a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow slip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

– Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block.

– Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow.

– Pillow of a plow, a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam.

– Pillow sham, an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use.

– Pillow slip, a pillowcase.

Pil"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pillowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillowing.]

Definition: To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition