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ˈpolt-foot arch.
Also 6 powlt-, 6–7 poult-, 7 polte-.
[app. f. polt n. sense 2 + foot n.]
1. A club-foot.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 97 Venus was content to take the blake Smith with his powlt foote. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 81 My eldest son had a polt foot, crooked legs. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 338 The women are commonly modest,..shewing nothing but their polt-feet which from their infancy are straitned. 1659Lady Alimony v. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 308 Vulcan's poult foot or his smutted look. 1840Browning Sordello v. 266 ‘Polt-foot’, sang they, ‘was in a pitfall now’.
2. attrib. (often poltfoot) = polt-footed.
c1589Nashe Almond for Parrat B iv b, My Bedlam brother Wig. and poltfoote Pag. with the rest of those patches. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. vii, What's become of..the poult-foot stinkard, her husband? 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 185 The rough construction and the poltfoot metre, lame sense and limping verse.
Hence ˈpolt-footed a., club-footed.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 39 Though he [Vulcan] was polt-footed, yet he was a God. c1619B. Jonson Merc. Vind. Wks. (Rtldg.) 595/1 This polt-footed philosopher, old Smug here of Lemnos. |