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Offline JenB

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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 17 March 18 14:51 GMT (UK) »
I'd go along with Drosybont and Gadget in thinking that the word in question is most likely pant.
Here's a nice one in Bamburgh http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3729601

As Gadget says, you need to put up a snip of the word in question.
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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 17 March 18 15:34 GMT (UK) »
It’s definitely pont. No reason why a mason would build a pond!

I suspect it’s a housing for a pump or similar.

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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 17 March 18 15:45 GMT (UK) »
I think the theory that it is an alternative spelling of pant is correct.

I’ve attached a copy of the passage in the document.

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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 17 March 18 15:54 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:31 GMT (UK) »
"font"?
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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:38 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: ThrelfallYorky on Saturday 17 March 18 17:31 GMT (UK)
"font"?

The first letter is definitely 'P', compare with the 'P' of Pounds higher up the page, as against the 'F' of Form (in the same line as Pont).

Although the word as written is Pont, I'm still going with it actually meaning Pant  :D
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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:48 GMT (UK) »
Agree with Jennifer. Compare the P in Pont with the F in Form further along the extract.

add - Sorry Jennifer - I didn't see your mention of Form when I posted this  :-\
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Re: What was a pont?
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 17 March 18 18:27 GMT (UK) »
Never heard of a pant before, but that's what it must be.

Speaking of pants.... I'm just re-reading Thomas Hardy's "A Pair of Blue Eyes". He prefaces each chapter with a literary quotation and I was once more amused at Vol 2, Chapter 5 starting with "He heard her musical pants".

Apparently it is a quotation from Shelley.
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