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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1504-1539, 1612
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Powt, Poult(e, Pult, n. [e.m.E. (catt) poughte (1535), putte (1500), the fur of a paw, pote (Caxton) the paw of a living animal, AF pote (14th c.), MDu. pôte, Du. poot, MLG pote (1402 in Schiller-Lübben), an animal's paw or the fur of a paw.] A piece of fur from a paw of an animal.(a) 1504 Treasurer's Accounts II 330.
For Calabar powtis to the body of the samyn [gown] 1522 Ib. V 194.
For ane lynyng of tod powtis to the kingis nichtgoun of chamelot viij li. v s. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 305.
Budge … Powtes the fur contening four pans ix li. 1612 Ib. 306.
Foxes … wombes powtes or peces the pane iiii li. xvi s. 1612 Ib., etc.
Powtes the hundreth x li.(b) 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 198.
For ane lyning of tod pultis to the samyn goune 1511–2 Ib. 200. 1512 Ib. 204.
vij mantillis pultis 1539 Inv. Wardrobe 37.(c) 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 305.
Cattes skins the hundreth xvi li. poultes the hundreth viii li. poultes the mantle iii li. wombes the pane or mantle iii li.
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