Polt-foot.

A club-foot. Ben Jonson calls Vulcan, who was lame, the “polt-footed philosopher.” (Swedish, bult, a club; bulta, to beat; our bolt.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Polixenes
Poll
Poll Degree
Poll Men
Pollentē
Pollio
Pollux
Polly
Polonius
Polony
Polt-foot
Poltron
Poltroon
Polybotes
Polycletus
Polycrates
Polycrates Ring
Polycraticon
Polydamás
Polydore
Polypheme