topographic name for someone who
lived by a tidal creek or an inlet of the sea, Old English
pyll, or a habitational name from Pylle in Somerset, which was
named with this word.descriptive nickname for a small, rotund
person, from Middle English, Old French pil(l)e ‘ball’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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