PILCHER

A maker of pilches, a kind of great coat or upper garment, in use in the fourteenth century. "After gret heat cometh cold, No man cast his pylch away."--Chaucer.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

PILCHER. A pylch was a medieval garment, made of fur (pcllis). The word is Chaucerian, and it also occurs in Caxton's Reynard the Fox. Reynard, having turned hermit, is represented as wearing "':\. pylclie and an heren sherte (a hair shirt) thereunder." Cap. V. A Pilcher was a maker of the article. Pilcher, Pilchere, Le Pilecher. II.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.