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pointel Now rare.|ˈpɔɪntəl|
Forms: 3– pointel; also 3 pontel, 4 poyntele, -til, 4–6 -tell, -e, 4–7 -tel, 6 -tyl(l, Sc. poyntal, 6–7 pointell, 7–8 -til, 7–9 pointal.
[a. OF. pointel (mod. pointeau) point of a spear, etc. = It. puntello, pontello a bodkin, a prick (Florio), dim. of punto point; cf. late L. punctillum little point, dot, dim. of punctum.]
†1. A small pointed instrument.
a. A writing or graving instrument; a stylus, a pencil. (Also erron. written pointrell, poitrel(l.) Obs. exc. Hist.
a1300Cursor M. 11087 (Gött.) Þan asked þaim sir Zachari, Tablis and a pointel [Cott. pontel] tite, And he bigan þe name to write. c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. i. 2 While þat I{ddd}markede my weply compleynte with office of poyntel. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 331 Iohn Scotte..was sleyne with poyntells of childer whom he tauȝhte at Malmesbury. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. iv. (1634) 312 The Lord doth..grave them with an yron pointell in an adamant stone. [1659Hoole Comenius' Vis. World xci. (1672) 186 The Ancients writ in Tables done over with wax with a brasan poitrel [stilo]. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Poitrel, a Brasen or Iron Instrument, with the sharp end whereof Letters are ingraven, and rubbed out with the broad end. ]1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 129 The stilus, or graphium, was called a pointel.
†b. (In form pointal.) A stiletto or dagger.
†c. A plectrum. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis vi. x. 46 Now with gymp fingeris doing stringis smyte, And now with.. poyntalis lyte. Ibid. vii. xii. 59 Wyth round stok suerdis faucht thai in melle, Wyth poyntalis.
2. The pistil or style of a flower; formerly also applied to a stamen. Now rare or Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. li. 267 Small white flowers with yellow pointels in the middle. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden ciii, In the middle part of them [lily flowers] do grow small tender Poyntels, tipped with a dusty yellow colour. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 166 With a Pointal or Rudiment of a Seed in the Cavity of the Flower. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) I. 487 The pointal, or female part of the flower. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. i. (1794) 23 This, taken in its whole, is called the pistil or pointal. 1831Howitt Seasons (1837) 263 Saffron,..consisting of the pointals of the crocus.
†3. A slender style-like organ on the body of an animal, as the ‘horn’ of a snail, the halteres or poisers of a dipterous insect. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 560 (Creatures in Africa), The Basiliske..is not halfe a foot long, and hath three pointels (Galen saith) on the head. 1689J. Banister in Phil. Trans. XVII. 670 These..have growing out of their Body, under each Wing, a small flexible..Pointel, with which they poise their Body. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. iv. (1727) 366 Such as have but two [wings, have] Pointels, and Poises placed under the Wings, on each Side of the Body.
†4. Glass-blowing. = pontil, punty. Obs.
[1788Rees Chambers' Cycl. s.v. Glass, They dip an iron rod, or ponteglo, in the melting-pots.] 1865Chambers' Encycl. IV. 779 A little boy now comes forward with an iron rod, the pointel, upon the end of which has been gathered a small lump of metal.
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An alleged sense ‘a floor set into squares, or lozenge forms’, in Parker Gloss. Arch., ed. 3, 1840, s.v. Poyntell or Poyntill (copied in Gwilt 1842–76, Halliwell 1847–78 (Pointel), Webster, Knight, Ogilvie, Cassell, Century Dict., Funk's Standard Dict.) following Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry ix, is an attempt to explain poynttyl, an erroneous reading, in the 1553 print of Piers Plowman's Crede, of the two words peynt tyl, i.e. painted tile. |