polt

English

Etymology

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

Noun

polt (plural polts)

1. (now dialectal) A hard knock.
   • 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.
2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle.
   • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 138:

     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.

Derived terms

• polt-foot

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, plot

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Estonian

Noun

polt (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. bolt (fastener)