poking-stick
now historical
noun
A rod for stiffening the pleats of a ruff (originally made of wood or bone, later of steel so as to be applied hot).
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Thomas Nashe (d. c1601), writer.
- pollened
- pollen fever
- pollen grain
- pollen granule
- pollen graph
- polleniferous
- pollenin
- pollen index
- pollenise
- pollenivorous
- pollenization
- pollenize
- pollen mass
- pollen mother cell
- pollen parent
- pollen paste
- pollen profile
- pollen sac
- pollen spectrum
- pollen spore
- pollen tube
- pollen zone
- poller
- Polle syndrome
- poll evil