pillow block

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

[Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.(Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.] [1913 Webster]

3.(Naut.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit. [1913 Webster]

4.A kind of plain, coarse fustian. [1913 Webster]

Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace.

Pillow bier [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. b["u]re 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. [1913 Webster]