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pointeln. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pointel. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pointel stylus, point, tip (compare Old French pointel point of a spear (12th cent.)) < pointe point n.1 + -el -el suffix2. In sense 4 apparently by confusion with French pointil , variant of pontil (see pontil n.).Attestation as a surname in 1086 (as Pointel, Pointellus, Puintel) probably reflects the Anglo-Norman word. A supposed sense ‘a floor set into squares, or lozenge forms’, recorded in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (1836) 45 under the spellings Poyntel or Poyntill (and hence copied in a number of 19th-cent. dictionaries) follows Warton:1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ix. 303 Poyntill may mean tiles in squares or dies, in chequer-work. See Skinner in Point, and DuFresne in Punctura.This is in turn an attempt to explain poynttyl, an erroneous reading in the 1553 print of Piers Plowman's Crede of the two words peynt tyl, i.e., ‘painted tile’. 1. A small pointed instrument. society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > stylus society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] > equipment a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. viii. 8 Verrely lesing wroȝte þe liyng poyntel [v.r. poyntil; L. stilus] of þe scribis. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 331 (MED) Iohn Scot..tauȝte children at Malmesbury, þe whiche children stiked hym to dethe wiþ here poyntelles [L. stylis]. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 11087 (MED) Asked þan sir zachari Tables and a pontel [c1460 Laud poyntele] tite. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1533 (MED) Þer apered a paume, wyth poyntel in fyngres..and grymly he wrytes. c1450 (a1425) (Selden) 14579 (MED) Wold god my wordes were wretyn..With a poyntyll of stele in a hard stoone of flynt. a1500 tr. A. Chartier (Rawl.) (1974) 86 (MED) In Tessalye was he throwen vndir and deed in a counceyle by writing poyntelles. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin iii. iv. f. 148 The Lorde doth..graue them with an iron pointell in an Adamant stone. 1563 f. 29v Saint Cassian..whom his owne scolers..tormented with the pricking or stabbing in of their poyntelles or brasen pennes into his body. a1770 T. Chatterton (1971) I. 84 He sleed so maynt, 'Tis paste the pointel of a man to paynte. 1853 D. Rock III. ii. 129 The stilus, or graphium, was called a pointel. 1921 H. Cheal viii. 99 They [sc. writing tablets] were formed with a framework..overlaid with smeared wax, on which the characters were impressed with a sharp instrument known as a ‘pointel’. society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1960) vii. xii. 59 Wyth round stok suerdis faucht thai in melle, Wyth poyntalis. a1525 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Lansdowne) iv. l. 2338 [Thai stekyt hym richt fellonly] With sharp pointalis [a1500 Nero pvnsionnys]. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > plectrum a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1960) vi. x. 46 Now with gymp fingeris doing stringis smyte, And now with..poyntalis lyte. the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > style or pistil and related parts 1597 J. Gerard ii. lviii. 278 Of Bitter sweete, or woode Nightshade... The flowers be small,..consisting of fiue little leaues a peece, of a perfect blewe colour, with a certain pricke or yellow pointell in the middle. 1657 W. Coles ciii In the middle part of them [sc. lily flowers] do grow small tender Poyntels, tipped with a dusty yellow colour. 1688 R. Holme ii. 67/2 The leaves grow in a bunch like Primroses, the Bells by multitudes hanging..one above another Pyramidically to the top..and a pointel in the middle. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. I. 166 With a Pointal or Rudiment of a Seed in the Cavity of the Flower. 1776 W. Withering I. 153 In the Cows Madnep florets have all chives and pointals. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau i. 25 This, taken in its whole, is called the Pistil or Pointal. 1831 W. Howitt 335 Saffron,..consisting of the pointals of the crocus. 1840 R. Browning v. 178 Get round at any risk The gold-rough pointel, silver-blazing disk O' the lily! 1858 W. Simonds xiii. 215 Another is the ‘lily’, which sends out three side jets, representing the petals, and an upright one in the centre, forming the pointal of the flower. 1994 (Nexis) 10 Dec. 11 Handsome bunches of sugared-almond purple flowers that clash slightly with the pointel of yellow anthers in their centres. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part 1613 S. Purchas 560 The Basiliske..is not halfe a foot long, and hath three pointels (Galen saith) on the head. 1693 J. Banister in (Royal Soc.) 17 670 These..have growing out of their Body, under each Wing, a small flexible..Pointel, with which they poise their Body. 1713 W. Derham viii. iv. 406 Such as have but two [wings, have] Pointils and Poises placed under the Wings, on each side of the Body. 1735 B. Martin iv. v. 310 Those [insects] which have but two Wings have Poises or Pointils, like little Balls, set under their Wings. society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > shaping equipment 1865 IV. 779 A little boy now comes forward with an iron rod, the pointel, upon the end of which has been gathered a small lump of metal. 1876 F. S. Barff 81 The pointel is taken by the blower, and the opening formed by the removal of the blowpipe is placed opposite to what is called a ‘flashing’ furnace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1382 |
