English Explanatory Dictionary

point-device

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of lace worked with devices.
  2. Anything uncommonly precise and exact.

Word forms

point-device point-devise

Etymology

From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.

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