The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polt
Polt \Polt\, n. [Cf. E. pelt, L. pultare to beat, strike.]
A blow or thump.
--Halliwell. -- a. Distorted.
Pot foot, a distorted foot.
--Sir T. Herbert.
Wiktionary
polt
n. 1 (context now dialectal English) A hard knock. 2 (context obsolete rare English) A pestle.
Usage examples of "polt".
Polten, where there was one set of points to be changed, and Melk, which we rushed past at a speed I dared not guess.
Polting might be easy, but it had not been easy to come by, for its development had been forced to wait upon the suspension of erroneous belief, had come only with the end of certain superstitions and the false screen of the prejudice set up to shield Man against his lack of knowledge.