Usually means: A person who steals fish.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilcher: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilcher: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pilcher, pilcher: Wordnik
  4. Pilcher, pilcher: Wiktionary
  5. pilcher: Dictionary.com
  6. Pilcher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. pilcher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Pilcher: Rhymezone
  9. Pilcher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. Pilcher: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. pilcher: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Pilcher: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilcher: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pilcher: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pilcher)

noun:  (obsolete) One who wears a pilch.
noun:  (obsolete) A scabbard, as of a sword.
noun:  A term of abuse for a person considered worthless, contemptible, or insignificant.https://www.google.com/books/edition/As_you_Like_it/uujKZZ7ndIUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22term+of+abuse+for+a+person+considered+worthless%22&pg=PA21&printsec=frontcover
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  Archaic form of pilchard. [Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.]

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