Molt vs Polt - What's the difference?
molt | polt |
To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.
To shed in such a manner.
The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
The skin or feathers cast off during the process of ing.
A hard knock.
*1782:' , ''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.
(obsolete, rare) A pestle.
*1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 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.
As a verb molt
is .As a noun polt is
a hard knock.molt
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Alternative forms
* moult (British English )Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Some birds change colour during their winter molt .
