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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. E.

pelt

, L.

pultare

to beat, strike.]

A blow or thump.

Halliwell.

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Adj.

Distorted.

Pot foot

a distorted foot.

Sir T. Herbert.

Noun.

A blow, stroke or striking; a word in common popular use in N. England.

polt ‎(plural polts)

(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.
(obsolete, rare) A pestle.
- 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 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.