pillow
Speech parts
1. pillow - Noun
2. pillow - Verb
3. Pillow - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee.
The devil places a pillow for a drunken man to fall upon.