Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thump or blow.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
poult .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A blow or thump.
- noun a distorted foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now dialectal A hard knock.
- noun obsolete, rare A
pestle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Macheavelian polt by Imigration and DOH to rid manhattan of migrant workers and provide cheap protein to the masses?
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Crash 2 roi930 and the look like the best drama of this year! roi930 this not gladiator soundtrack 'is from the movie "the island"' this name fo the score is "my nime is lincolen" polt
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Joe is hard one to understand maybe he just has probelm which a lotta polt. have has mouth running with his brain in neutral which a lotta them are not real honest Joe seem be fairly honest and people are always picking Joe that by way kudo to George Jetson the picture Obama and company i think that fit them perfectly
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Keyboard aficionados from five continents enjoy reminiscing at The Classic Typewriter Page (xavier. xu.edu: 8000/~polt/typewriters. html), where classifieds offer the old machines to buy, sell or trade.
Qwerty 2008
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The temperature polt for the Northern Polar region is here .
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In this way you could get an actual polt with a correlation which would show if there was an intrinsic bias in reconstructing histories?
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What buffoonery that Vulcan is not guilty of, while one with his polt-foot, another with his smutched muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the rest of the gods?
In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958
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You see I had to bring him a pretty good polt, so as to lay him flat, else he might ha' found it all out, the good-for-nothing son-of-a-gun, to go to sarve a warrant on an old man, just for speaking his mind in meeting.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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"I should know the place, sir," he said, "for I got a hawful polt o 'the side of the head somewheres about here; and -- ah! this here's right, for there's another little keg o' spirits."
In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Good polt on the head with a club settles them, though, soon enough."
Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days George Manville Fenn 1870
jmjarmstrong commented on the word polt
JM looked everywhere for the meaning then it hit him like a polt from the blue!
February 16, 2011