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English
Etymology
Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).
Noun
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, 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.
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Estonian
Etymology
From Middle Low German bolte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. First attested in 1780.
Noun
polt (genitive poldi, partitive polti)
- bolt (fastener)
Declension
Further reading
- “polt”, in 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)