p'int

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English

Noun

p'int (plural p'ints)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of point.
    • 1877, R. Elton Smile , chapter II, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 20-21:
      "There was the p'int clear, and we said 'Never a bit!' So you see after the flurry was over we put the question to the others and they took the bearings at once; so you see that we've concluded that we're only 'titled to prize money at most, just as you valer the danger we run with the savages.
    • 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, page 87:
      "Used to call this p'int Joanna's wharf privilege, but't has worn away in the weather since her time.
    • 2012, various, chapter 13, in The Boy Scouts Book of Stories, unnumbered page:
      Then somebody tells him it's the duckin' season down to Setuckit P'int, and he says he'll spend his day off, while the boss is away, massycreein' the coots there.
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