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▪ I. polt, n. Obs. exc. dial.|pəʊlt|
[Origin obscure: in sense 1 it may be a variant of palt n.; but cannot easily be connected with pelt. It is not certain that sense 2 is the same word.]
1. A blow, a hard rap or knock. Now dial.
c1610MS. Bodl. 30 lf. 24 b, I tooke him a polt of the pate. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Polt on the Pate, a good Rap there. 1700J. Asgill Argument 103 If any one hath spite enough to give me a polt,..I only desire them first to qualify themselves for my Executioners. a1739Jarvis Quix. ii. x. (1749) 162 One of those who stood close by him..lifted up a pole he had in his hand, and gave him such a polt with it as brought Sancho Pança to the ground. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ii. ix, He'd go nigh to give me a good polt of the head. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Polt, a hard driving blow. 1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 702 [It] fetched me an awful polt in the right side.
†2. A pestle or club (cf. polt-foot). Obs.
1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 17 Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaues of their corne.
†b. The club-shaped stem and bulb of a leek.
1635Markham Eng. Husb. ii. i. ii. 9 You shall cut the blades [of leeks] to the polt.
▪ II. polt, v. Now dial.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To knock, thrash, beat, bang.
1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 179 Then polt it, or faulter it as some call it, that is, beat it over again in the husk. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 329 To Polt, to beat or thrash. 1706Phillips, To Polt (Country-Word), to beat, bang, or thrash. 1831Lower T. Cladpole cxxxviii, I aim'd ma swish an levell'd well, To polt un on de head.
Hence polting-lug (dial.): see quot.
1853Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIV. ii. 441 In Herefordshire the ordinary mode of gathering the fruit is by sending men to beat the trees with long slender poles or rods,..these poles are provincially termed ‘polting lugs’.
▪ III. polt
obs. form of poult. |