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单词 pulter
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pultern.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English pult , pullet n., -er suffix1; poultry n.
Etymology: Either < Middle English pult, variant of pullet n. + -er suffix1, or an alteration of poultry n.It is not certain that quot. c1475 represents the same word. Editors of this text take this as a word meaning ‘rags’, representing an otherwise unattested cognate or variant of paltry n. or peltry n.2 These are, however, apparently first attested later.
Obsolete. rare.
Apparently: an edible fowl; (collectively) poultry.In quot. c1475 the whole passage is composed in the language of falconry, and some of the allusions are obscure.
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1474 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 144 (MED) Item, remembre milke, pulters, egges.
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. 165 (MED) But þe blernyed boynard þat his bagg stall, Where purraile-is pulter was pynnyd full ofte, Made þe fawcon to floter and flussh for anger, That þe boy hadd be bounde þat þe bagge kepte.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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