We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
pointer1 (c.1170)

pointer1 (c.1170)

ponter,  poynter,  puncter,  punter, 
(p.p. pointtu)  
  FEW:  puncta 9,578b / punctum 9,589a Gdf:  pointier 1 6,255a GdfC:  pointer 1 10,368b / pointer 2 10,368b TL: pointier 1 7,564 DEAF:  point (pointer)  / point (pointier 1)  / point (pointir)  DMF:  pointer 1   / pointer 3  TLF:  pointer 1  OED:  point v.1  MED:  pointen v.1  DMLBS:  punctare 2575a

The past participle, pointé, may also be interpreted as pointe, the feminine form of the past participle of the related verb poindre1. As grammatical gender was often fluid in Anglo-Norman, it is virtually impossible to distinguish pointe from pointé in prose. However, poindre1 is by far the most common verb of the two.

v.trans.

1to prick, pierce, stab with a sharp object
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  corounement des espines ke li ponirerent (var. (BN: s.xivin) pointerunt) si asprement en la seinte preciouse teste  Ancren2 262.17
( MS: c.1325 )  si humme soy ponté d’etspyne (l. eçspyne) [...]  Receptaria 126.435
zool.insectsrept.(of insect, snake, scorpion etc.) to sting or bite
( MS: c.1325 )  pur ponture de serpent [...]. Celuy ou cele que lé novelus vous portera que le beste est poynté, dites louy que ele querge si [...]  Receptaria 151.694
2gramm.to punctuate, insert stops or pauses
( 1310 ) Cant.: ‘Le bref est faus [...]’. Ing.: ‘Vous le poyntez malement [...]’  YBB Ed II iv 149

v.intrans.

1to punch, prick with a pointed instrument (in the preparation of manuscript or text)
( MS: s.xiii )  Cedula sive appendice tam in superori parte quam in inferiori folia habeat coniuncta, et registrum et punctorium de quo dicere possit ‘punxi (gloss: pointai) non pupugi  TLL i 188-89.167 and ii 117.167
2gramm.to punctuate, insert stops or pauses
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  [...] K’il sachent tres bien accenter [...] Et lire bien et destincter Et bien pointer et bien metrer  Corset ANTS 780

p.p. as a.

1 pointed, furnished with a point
( 1423 )  Item, .i. crois d'or [...] ovec .i. crucifix garniz en la plaie a coste d'un rubie pris .cc. li. en la mayn senestre d'un diamande poynté  Rot Parl1 iv 217.105
( 1428-32 )  Item, une aultre couppe d'or, coverte, au façon d'Angleterre, a long martillis sans esmail, ouveree a l'entour du pee et du covercle de longues fueilles et pointtues  Bedford Inventories 215.C4
2pointed, prickly
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Cum rose [...] Ki de tant fleire plus suef Cum ele seit pointé plus gref  Mirur3 6916
3costumetextilequilted (by stitching together two pieces of cloth with a layer of padding
( 1303-04 )  [...] dount il ne rendist puis qu’il avoit son argent receu qe un aketon, un gaumbesoun, unes trappes, quisseaux e greves pointés, e retint devers li un aketoun, .ij. gaumbesons, unes trappes, .i. bacinet, quisseaux e greves pointés, e une sele a summe  Northumb 87
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  Hanc cooperiat culcitra punctata (gloss: (D) pointé) (var. (L: s.xiii/xiv) puncté ) vel vestis stragulata  TLL i 182.64 and ii 68.64
coilte pointee
domestictextilecounterpane, quilted mattress or bed-cover
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Pus si veit Haderof sur la coilte pointee Seeir [...]  Horn 866

[gdw]

See also:

poignanment  poignant  poigné1  poindre1  point1  pointeié  pointel1  pointel2  pointelé  pointement  pointerole  pointet  pointing  pointur1  pointur2  pointure  purpoint  purpointé 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
pointer_1