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▪ I. elt, n. dial.|ɛlt|
Also hilt.
[? var. of yelt.]
(See quots.)
1842Akerman Wilts. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Hilt, a young sow kept for breeding. 1864Barnes Dorset Gloss. in Philol. Soc. Trans. 55 Elt, a young sow or pig.
▪ II. † elt, v. Obs. or dial.|ɛlt|
[ad. ON. elta to knead, work.]
To knead.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2892 And ðoȝ holden ðe tiȝeles tale, And elten and eilden, grete and smale. 1691in Ray N.C. Wds. 24. 1721–1800 in Bailey. 1875Lanc. Gloss. s.v. Hoos eltin t' doff an canno' come. 1854in A. E. Baker Northamptonsh. Gloss.
? Hence ˈelting, vbl. n.; used attrib. or as adj. in elting-moulds, ‘the soft ridges of fresh-ploughed land’ (Clare).
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 74, I took my rounds O'er elting moulds of fallow grounds. Ibid. I. 91 He scampers over the elting soil. 1854in A. E. Baker Northamptonsh. Gloss. |