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Pottle

Pottle \Pot"tle\, n. [OE. potel, OF. potel, dim. of pot. See Pot.]

  1. A liquid measure of four pints.

  2. A pot or tankard.
    --Shak.

    A dry pottle of sack before him.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  3. A vessel or small basket for holding fruit.

    He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand.
    --Dickens.

    Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

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Wiktionary
pottle

n. 1 (context archaic English) A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size. 2 (context New Zealand English) A conical receptacle, typically for potato chips or other foodstuffs. 3 A pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.

WordNet
pottle

n. a pot that holds 2 quarts

Usage examples of "pottle".

Training has meant so much vital overplus to me that I long ago spurted and caught up with my pottle of joy.

Nose, who carried their liquor in fair, round little pottles, by reason they could not house it out of their canteens, having such rare long noses.

Gaskill and Pottle stood overwhelmed by the spectacular array of antiquities.

Then the Cook took another draught from the pottle, and, clearing his throat, sang right sweetly: THE SONG OF THE DESERTED SHEPHERDESS "In Lententime, when leaves wax green, And pretty birds begin to mate, When lark cloth sing, and thrush, I ween, And stockdove cooeth soon and late, Fair Phillis sat beside a stone, And thus I heard her make her moan: 'O willow, willow, willow, willow!

As the story got around, especially the matter of the deaths of the Pottles, Beecher found himself with no support at all, save from his own clique of sycophants and toadies and the professional, largely disinterested support of the Company's police.

For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.

Sarah Pottle has been Luba's pet hate ever since, and Tuesday Luba was giving me some juicy details on Sarah's habits at home.