poukenelt

[Also powkenel, powke - needle; said to be so called in allusion to the long beaks of the seed-ve els; poulaine (pö-lān′), n. IMG:content-0751.png:[blocks in formation] The costermongers fruite vs, The poulters send vs in fowl, And butchers meate without controul. Heywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 11). Poulters' measuret, a kind of verse combining lines of twelve and fourteen syllables. See the quotations. [ Also poulain ; ME. po IMG:content-0752.png:[blocks in formation] The half-boots or shoes distinguished as poulaines continued to be long and very sharply pointed. Encyc. Brit., VI. 469. Poulaine de varlet, a poulaine with shorter projecting toe, such being the only ones allowed to working people and domestics, not merely for convenience or utility, but by expre ordinances.