Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dialectal)A hard knock.

  2. (obsolete, rare)A pestle.

Origin

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

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Forms

plural: polts
Singularpolt
Pluralpolts

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpolt foot

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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