pillar
/piˈʝaɾ/ · B1 · verb
to catch, get, to grab
🚕 pillar ≈ pillage: plunderers grab things, so pillar = to grab, nab, catch
Shares a root with English pillage (French piller, to plunder). Spanish widened it from stealing to grabbing anything: pillar un taxi, pillar un resfriado (catch a cold). Not the English pillar: a column is pilar.