subs. (venery).—1. The penis: see PRICK: cf. MORTAR = female pudendum. Also, as verb.—to copulate: see RIDE.
2. (old).—A constable’s staff.
3. (old).—A leg: cf. ‘PESTLE of pork,’ long and still in vogue.
d. 1529. SKELTON, The Tunnynge of Elynoure Rummynge [DYCE, i. 108].
| Her kyrtell she did vptucke | |
| An ynche aboue her kne, | |
| Her legges that ye might se … | |
| Myghty PESTELS … | |
| As fayre and as whyte | |
| As the fote of a kyte. |
See KNIGHT.
