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polt-foot
ˈpolt-foot arch. Also 6 powlt-, 6–7 poult-, 7 polte-. [app. f. polt n. sense 2 + foot n.] 1. A club-foot.1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 97 Venus was content to take the blake Smith with his powlt foote. 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 81 My eldest son had a polt foot, crooked legs. 1638 Sir T. Herber...
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polt
▪ I. polt, n. Obs. exc. dial. (pəʊlt) [Origin obscure: in sense 1 it may be a variant of palt n.; but cannot easily be connected with pelt. It is not certain that sense 2 is the same word.] 1. A blow, a hard rap or knock. Now dial.c 1610 MS. Bodl. 30 lf. 24 b, I tooke him a polt of the pate. a 1700 ...
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leg
▪ I. leg, n. (lɛg) Also 3–7 pl. legges, (4–7 leggis, leggys), 4–5 lege, 6–7 legge. [a. ON. legg-r leg, (in compounds) leg or arm, limb (Sw. lägg, Da. læg, calf of the leg):—OTeut. type *lagjo-z. Cf. Lombard lagi ‘coxa super genuculum’ (Ed. Roth. 384). By some scholars the word is referred to the Wes...
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