polt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

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noun

noun

Obsolete

"1782: Frances Burney, Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good polt of the head."
"Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie."

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

polts (plural)

polt-foot polt foot

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