"polt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: polts [plural]
Etymology: Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb). Etymology templates: {{m|en|palt}} palt, {{m|en|pelt}} pelt Head templates: {{en-noun}} polt (plural polts)
  1. (now dialectal) A hard knock. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-polt-en-noun-Ayx7SFD0
  2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle. Tags: obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-polt-en-noun-UwDSFneY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: polt-foot, polt foot

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for polt meaning in English (1.5kB)

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  "etymology_text": "Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).",
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    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1782: Frances Burney, Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good polt of the head."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hard knock."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now dialectal) A hard knock."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138",
          "text": "Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pestle."
      ],
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        "(obsolete, rare) A pestle."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
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      ]
    }
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
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    {
      "word": "polt foot"
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      },
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      "name": "m"
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      "expansion": "pelt",
      "name": "m"
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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        {
          "text": "1782: Frances Burney, Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good polt of the head."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hard knock."
      ],
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        "(now dialectal) A hard knock."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138",
          "text": "Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A pestle."
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        "(obsolete, rare) A pestle."
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