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.

Derived terms

• polt-foot, polt foot

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, plot

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German bolte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. First attested in 1780.

Noun

polt (genitive poldi, partitive polti)

1. bolt (fastener)

Declension

Declension of polt (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		polt	poldid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	poldi
genitive			poltide
partitive		polti	polte poltisid
illative		polti poldisse	poltidesse poldesse
inessive		poldis	poltides poldes
elative		poldist	poltidest poldest
allative		poldile	poltidele poldele
adessive		poldil	poltidel poldel
ablative		poldilt	poltidelt poldelt
translative		poldiks	poltideks poldeks
terminative		poldini	poltideni
essive		poldina	poltidena
abessive		poldita	poltideta
comitative		poldiga	poltidega

Further reading

• “polt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• polt in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)