Meanings
nounpolt (plural polts)
plural polts
- dialectalA hard knock.
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.
- obsoleterareA pestle.
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.
1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138
Origin
Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).
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