pilon

Borrowed from Spanish pilón.

pilon (plural pilons or pilones)

1. (Latin America) A conical loaf of sugar.
2. (Texas) A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts.
3. A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.

• (sugar loaf): panela, pilonce, piloncillo

• pilon fracture

From piler +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /pi.lɔ̃/

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pilon m (plural pilons)

1. pestle
2. wooden leg
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     C'est ainsi qu'il déboursa trois cents francs pour une jambe de bois dont elle jugea convenable de faire cadeau à Hippolyte. Le pilon en était garni de liège, et il y avait des articulations à ressort, une mécanique compliquée recouverte d'un pantalon noir, que terminait une botte vernie.

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3. thigh (the thigh bone of poultry meat)

• piler
• pilonner

• “pilon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• lopin

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpilon/ [ˈpi.lɔn]
• Rhymes: -ilon
• Syllabification: pi‧lon

pilon (comparative lebih pilon, superlative paling pilon)

1. pretend not to know

• “pilon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from French pylône.

pilon m (plural piloni)

1. pylon

• “pilon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

pilon (definite accusative pilonu, plural pilonlar)

1. pylon (a gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple)