A scabbard. (Anglo-Saxon, pylce; Latin, pellis, skin.)
“Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher?”—Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.