▪ I. † pilt, pult, v. Obs.
Forms: α. 2–4 pulte(n; β. 2–5 pilte(n, 3–4 pylte; γ. 4–5 pelte. pa. tense. α. 3–4 pulte, 4–5 pult; β. 3–4 pylte, pilte, 5 pylt; γ. 4– 5 pelt(e. pa. pple. α. 2–3 i-, y-pult, 3–4 pult; β. 3–5 pilt, 4 pylt, 4–5 pylte; γ. 5 pelt.
[ME. pülten, pylten, pilten, repr. an unrecorded OE. *pyltan.
App. ad. L. pultare to beat, strike, knock; cf. OE. tyrnan, ad. L. tornare. No examples of pult, pylt, pilt, in sense 1 or 2, are known after 1400, nor of sense 3 after c 1430 (when pult in this sense was generally succeeded by put). Instances of pelt occur somewhat later in a Northern text; but it is doubtful whether this is the mod.Eng. verb pelt.]
1. trans. To thrust, push; to thrust away or out.
| α c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 129 Heo weren ipult ut of paradise. c 1275 Lay. 7527 Nemnius pulte vp [c 1205 hæf vp] his scelde. Ibid. 10839 Bruttes þane broc Galli cleopede, For þat Liuius Gallus was þar on i-pult þus. c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 56/78 Huy harleden him wel faste, And smiten and pulten here and þere. Ibid. 328/189 Darstþov þine moder pulte? 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) App. EE. 22 Hit was þe spere..þat was ypult to his herte. c 1305 St. Andrew 72 in E.E.P. (1862) 100 In to þe vrþe hi pulte faste þe tuei endes of þe Rode. c 1320 Cast. Love 207 Out of his heritage he is pult For synne and for his owne gult. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. viii. 96 A pyke is on þat potente to pulte [v.rr. pelte, pilte, putte; A. punge, C. pulte, putte] adown þe wikked. a 1380 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. lii. 92 Mi mouþ I pulte, my sweore I streiȝt To cusse his feet. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 774 [He] pulte is bowels in ageyn. |
| β c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 197 Þe neddre..hire oðer eare pilteð hire tail þer inne. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1296 Ho-so curseþ wiþoutyn gylt Hyt shal on hys hede be pylt. ? 1370 Robt. Cicyle §89 And so hath he done for my gylte: Now am y of my lande pylte. |
| γ 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 4086 Þat heued þai han on a spere y-sett:..Mani on pelt her finger þer-to. a 1400 Octavian 595 The lyonesse..on the schyp sche gan to clym..The schypmen.. ofte her pelte ynto the see. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxi. 284 Yit wold I gif of my gold yond tratoure to pelt [rimes swelt, belt, felt] ffor euer. |
b. fig. To impel, drive, force.
| a 1250 Owl & Night. 871 Mid mine songe ich hine pulte Þat he groni for his gulte. |
2. To put forcibly.
pilt out, to put or take out by force.
| α 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7713 Wo so..slou hert oþer hind. Me ssolde pulte [v.r. putte] out boþe is eye & makye him pur blind. 13.. Verses for Palm Sunday xxii. in Rel. Ant. II. 244 To dethe a wolde hym pulte. |
| β a 1300 Fall & Passion 56 in E.E.P. (1862) 14 Fort godis sone in rode was pilt. a 1300 Ten Commandm. 12 Ibid. 16 Whan ȝe sweriþ gret oþis in rode þou piltist him apan. c 1350 Will. Palerne 4219 Neuer-more for no man mowe [þei] be deliuered, ne pult out [of] prison. Ibid. 4593 He bar doun vs alle, & pult vs in prison. |
| γ c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4550 Þe paynyms to dede war pelt..whils þai [cristen men] dede dyntes delt. |
3. To put, place, set; to apply.
pilt out, to put forth, publish, exhibit, display.
| α 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9550 So þat it was uorþ ipult þat þe king and heo So sibbe were þat hii ne miȝte leng to gadere beo. c 1300 Beket 1316 He nele bileve nevere mo, Bote ȝe pulte ȝoure hond therto to bringe ous out of wo. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. i. 125 Ac lucifer lowest lith of hem alle; For pryde þat he pult [v.rr. pelt, putte, put, puttede] out. |
| β c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2214 Ðo breðere seckes hauen he filt, And in euerilc ðe siluer pilt. a 1300 Fall & Passion 29 in E.E.P. (1862) 13 Womman mai turne man-is wille whare ȝho wol pilt hir to. c 1325 Lai le Freine 136 With a lace of silke therm pilt. c 1400 Gamelyn 894 Sitthen in gode office þe kyng hath alle them pilt. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 21 Take þin þombe & pylt þer-on, & ȝif it cleuey, let it boyle. |
| γ c 1320 Sir Tristr. 1520 His mouþe opened þai And pelt treacle in þat man. |
4. intr. To thrust oneself, push; to impinge with force;
pulten aȝean, to rebound.
| α a 1225 Ancr. R. 366 Hwar se muchel dunt is, hit pulteð up aȝean o þeo þet þer neih stondeð. Sikerliche, hwose is neih him þet ikepte þe heuie duntes, hit wule pulten [v.r. butten, bulen] on him. |
| β, γ a 1300 K. Horn (Harl.) 1433 Ffykenild aȝeyn hire pylte [Laud 1415 pulte, Camb. 1470 pelte] mid his suerdes hylte. |
Hence
† pilting,
pulting vbl. n., pushing, thrusting, impact.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 366 Þe pultunge is ful liht to þolien uor his luue þet underueng so heuie duntes. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4313 Þer was pultinge & ssouinge & stroc monyon. |
▪ II. † pilt, pult, n. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. vb.] A thrust; a push.
| 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 3466 Damme, for-ȝeue me þis gilt, I ne ȝaf þe noþer dent ne pilt! a 1350 Childh. Jesus 422 He ful a doun ded for is gult. Ne hadde he noþur dunt ne pult. |