Pott vs Polt - What's the difference?
pott | polt |
An old size of paper, 12.5 x 15 inches.
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 proper noun pott
is .As a noun polt is
a hard knock.pott
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
. Possibly from originally bearing a watermark of a pot or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.Noun
(-)- pott paper
