α. late Middle English pountrelle, 1600s pointrell, 1700s–1800s pointrel.
β. 1600s poitrel, 1600s poitrell.
† pointreln.
Obsolete.
1. A pointed instrument for making holes, a punch.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > punches
pointrel1476
punch1505
punk1670
puncher1681
dog-tooth1736
pommel1793
keypunch1850
bear1853
bell-punch1877
summary punch1934
1476 in P. E. Jones Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1961) VI. 112 (MED) [2] pyles, [2] aundeviles..[with other small things as] nyppers, pountrelles.
2. A pointed instrument for writing or engraving; = pointel n. 1.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > stylus
pointela1382
stylea1387
greffea1400
gad1570
pointrel1659
steel1738
stylet1753
stylus1807
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] > equipment
platea1400
penc1400
pointel1561
pointrel1659
spade1850
oil ring1902
1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus xci. 186 The Ancients writ in Tables done over with Wax with a brasen poitrel [L. Stilo].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 19/2 The Poitrell or Pointrell is a brasse Instrument formerly used to write withall on tables.
1737 W. Gardiner Pract. Surv. Improved Introd. 5 Instruments commonly used in plotting are a Ruler, a Pointrel, a pair of Compasses, and a scale.
1791 G. Adams Geom. & Graphical Ess. 373 With a pointrel or needle point, prick through all the corners of the plan to be copied.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Pointrel, a graving-tool.
3. The pointed extremity of the lobe of a leaf. rare.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet
lacinia1668
label1672
pinna1703
label1707
pinnula1707
ala1712
lobe1731
pinnule1751
lobe-leaf1758
leafit1761
little leaf1775
wing1776
foliole1785
leaflet1811
lobelet1850
auricle1861
lobule1880
pinnulet1881
pointrel1881
1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell i, in Good Words 22 p. ix/1 Broad leaves spreading into pointrels, waved and cut with crisp indenture.
1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven I. xvii. 175 A vine..clambers with grey silver pointrels through the more glossy and darker green.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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