Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An animal's paw's fur or the animal's paw itself.

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, year= 1398 , year_published= 1898 , author= James Hamilton Wylie , by= , title= History of England under Henry the Fourth , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zLMxAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA173 , original= , chapter= Appendix A: Duchy of Lancaster Records , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Longmans, Green, and Co. , location= London , editor= , volume= 4 , page= 173 , passage= Fur Potes de Calabr'. }}

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, year= 1420 , year_published= 1943 , author= City of London (England). Corporation , by= , title= Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guild-hall , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=uGCBUZSnGIP30gHQ54HwAg&id=FmcOAQAAIAAJ&q=calabre , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= The University Press , location= , editor= , volume= 1413-1437 , page= 75 , passage= One gown of blue'' colour furred with ''potes'' of ''calabre , 28 }}

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, year= 1481 , year_published= 1893 , author= William Carton , by= , title= Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LsxZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113 , original= , chapter= 68: Godfrey is wounded by a Bear. , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. , location= London , editor= Mary Noyes Colvin, PhD. , volume= , page= 113 , passage= ... the beeste ... embraced hym with his potes , or feet to fore, ... }}

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, year= 1497 , year_published= 1993 , author= , by= , title= St. Albans Wills 1471-1500 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=adnKZwEACAAJ , original= , chapter= Will of R. Burton , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Hertfordshire Record Society , location= , editor= Susan Flood , volume= , page= 141 , passage= My wife's blewe gowne engrayned furred with powtes . }}

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, year= 1612 , year_published= 1867 , author= Andrew Halyburton , by= , title= Ledger of Andrew Halyburton 1492-1503 , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=OKMUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA306 , original= , chapter= On Imports , section = Book of Customs and Valuation of Merchandises, Anno. 1612 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= Edinburg, Scotland , editor= , volume= , page= 306 , passage= Foynes—backes the dozen ... tailes the pane or mantle ... powtes the hundreth }}

Noun

possession, ownership

property (piece of real estate)