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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1494

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(Punȝeant,) Poingnant, n. Pl. poingnantes, -ance. [f. as Punȝeand ppl. adj.: cf. MF poignant a dagger (1401 in Wartburg).] A spike or spine. —1494 Loutfut MS 19a.
He has ma spinis or of poingnance than othir best of fowr feit 1494 Ib. 37a.
Mollites ar scharp poingnantes and ar ordanit to be put apon spurris to correk the hors

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