polt

English

Etymology

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

Noun

polt (plural polts)

  1. (now dialectal) A 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.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle.
    • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138:
      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.

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Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Baltic German Bolt, from Middle Low German bolte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bultaz.

Noun

polt (genitive poldi, partitive polti)

  1. bolt (fastener)

Declension

Further reading

  • M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), polt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
  • polt in Sõnaveeb
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