poynt

English

Noun

poynt (plural poynts)

1. Obsolete form of point.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 175[1]:

     Which over Severne heere they in the Mountaines shut,

     And some upon that poynt of Cornwall forth they put.

Verb

poynt (third-person singular simple present poynts, present participle poynting, simple past and past participle poynted)

1. Obsolete form of point.

Anagrams

• Ponty, ponty

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Middle English

Etymology

Old French point

Noun

poynt

1. point
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     This is the poynt, to speken short and pleyn

     This is the point, to speak briefly and clearly