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▪ I. † palt, n. Obs.
[f. palt v.: by-form of pelt n.2]
A blow, a stroke: = pelt n.2
1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. vi. vi. 887 Lifting vp the woodden weapon, he gaue him such a palt on the pate. 1630Tinker of Turvey (1859) 17 Another gave me three palts on the head, my scull was cracked.
▪ II. † palt, v.1 Obs.
[By-form of pelt, pilt, pult v.]
trans. To thrust, put forcibly.
a1380Cristene-mon & Jew 99 in Min. P. Vernon MS. 487 Men schal in prison þe palt [rimes malt, for-talt] And putte þe to pyne.
▪ III. † palt, v.2 Obs.
Also 6 pault.
[By-form of pelt v. The phonetic change is unexplained.]
1. trans. To drive with missiles.
1637Heywood Dial. iv. Wks. 1874 VI. 184 Yon hill, from whose high crest I with more ease with stones may palt them hence.
2. To strike with repeated blows of missiles; to assail with missiles.
1579Gosson Apol. Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 64 The dirty Champions that stoode a loofe, paulted the buckler bearers on the shinnes. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. iv. 8 The whole multitude to the very children, pursued and palted them with staves and stones. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 110 Their Father was palted with hundreds of them [eggs]..on the Pillory. 1740Dyche & Pardon, Palting or Pelting, the act of throwing stones, dirt, &c. at a person.
b. fig. To assail with obloquy or reproaches.
1697Collier Immor. Stage iii. (1698) 111 Do the Antient Poets palt it in this Manner? 1701― M. Aurel. (1726) 28 When the Emperor was once dead, he palts his memory to some purpose.
3. intr. To deliver repeated blows; to discharge missiles.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Trophies 263 Am I a Dog,..To be with stones repell'd and palted at?
4. To go with effort; to trudge.
1560Nice Wanton in Hazl. Dodsley II. 165 Now pretty sister, what sport shall we devise? Thus palting to school, I think us unwise. |