† poigne Obs. rare.
(pɔɪn)
[a. OF. poigne, fem. form parallel to poing:—L. pugn-um fist.]
The closed hand or fist: in phr. kept in poigne (fig.).
| a 1734 North Exam. i. ii. §139 (1740) 107 The Witnesses, which the Faction kept in Poigne (like false Dice, high and low Fullhams) to be played forth upon Plots, and to make Discoveries as there was Occasion. Ibid. ii. v. §126. 393 The Engineers..determined what was to be communicated,..and what to be kept in Poigne, secret from them. |