PooA¤t-hole, Pote-hole. _s._ A small hole through which
anything is pushed with a stick; a confined place.
PooA¤ty. _adj._ Confined, close, crammed.
Port'mantle. _s._ A portmanteau.
Poti'cary. _s._ An apothecary.
To Poun. _v._ To pound [to put into the pound, to "lock up"].
A Power of rain. A great deal of rain.
Pruv'd. _v._ Proved.
To pray. _v. a._ To drive all the cattle into one herd in a
moor; _to pray the moor_, to search for lost cattle.
Prankin. _s._ Pranks.
Pud. _s._ The hand; the fist.
Pulk, Pulker. _s_ A small shallow-place, containing water.
Pull-reed. _s._ [Pool reed.] A long reed growing in ditches
and pools, used for ceiling instead of laths.
Pultry. . Poultry.
Pum'ple. _adj._ Applied only, as far as I know, in the
compound word _pumple-voot_, a club-foot.
Put. _s._ A two-wheeled cart used in husbandry, and so
constructed as to be turned up at the axle to discharge the load.
Pux'ie. _s._ A place on which you cannot tread without danger
of sinking into it; applied most commonly to places in roads or
fields where springs break out.
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