polt

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

polt (plural polts)

1. (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.
2. (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.

• polt-foot, polt foot

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, plot

Inherited from Old Czech polet. By surface analysis, půl +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolt]

polt m inan

1. (dialectal) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Synonym: poltina

   čtyři polty slaniny

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   Tuk z vepřů se na poltiny rozdělí a udí.

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• “polt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “polt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “polt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Middle Low German bolte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bultaz. First attested in 1780.

polt (genitive poldi, partitive polti)

1. bolt (fastener)

• “polt”, in [EKSS] 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)