▪ I. poot, n.1 Now chiefly north.
(pʊt)
A dial. form of poult, applied not only to chickens and young game birds, but to the young of various other animals, e.g. a small haddock, a young trout.
(In the latter application some would refer it to OE. p{uacu}ta in ǽle-p{uacu}ta eel-pout.)
| 1512 Will of J. Barlowe (Somerset Ho.), Fur of fox pootes. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 679 Partridge, pheasant, quaile, raile, poots, and such like. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 311/1 A Cock [is called] first a Peep, then a Chicken, then a Poot. 1697 Phil. Trans. XIX. 573 Found them as big as Poot-Eggs. 1825 Jamieson, Poot, this seems to be the same with Pout, used to denote a small haddock, Fife. 1828 Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Poot, a young growse or moor poot. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums i. 5 The lambin' o' the yowes, the cleckin' o' the poots. |
▪ II. poot, n.2 Obs.
[A variant of pote n.1: cf. poot pote v.]
A stirring rod: see quot.
| 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xviii. ¶2 A long strong round Iron Stirring Poot; the Handle of which Stirring Poot is also about two Yards long or more, and the Poot it self almost twice the length of the depth of the Melting Pot. |
▪ III. poot, poote
var. pote v.; obs. or dial. f. put v.