p'int

plural p'ints

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of point.

   "Used to call this p'int Joanna's wharf privilege, but't has worn away in the weather since her time.

   1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, page 87

   2 more examples

   "There was the p'int clear, and we said 'Never a bit!' So you see after the flurry was over we put the question to the others and they took the bearings at once; so you see that we've concluded that we're only 'titled to prize money at most, just as you valer the danger we run with the savages.

   1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter II, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, pages 20-21

   Then somebody tells him it's the duckin' season down to Setuckit P'int, and he says he'll spend his day off, while the boss is away, massycreein' the coots there.

   2012, various, chapter 13, in The Boy Scouts Book of Stories, unnumbered page