pottle
Americannoun
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a former liquid measure equal to two quarts.
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a pot or tankard of this capacity.
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the wine or other liquid in it.
noun
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archaic a liquid measure equal to half a gallon
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a plastic or cardboard container for foods such as yoghurt, fruit salad, or cottage cheese
Etymology
Origin of pottle
1250–1300; Middle English potel < Middle French, diminutive of pot pot 1; see -elle
Example Sentences
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We hardly know what to compare the snout to, unless it is a very long and thin strawberry pottle, that some wicked boys have been tying over his mouth.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
If no oder medticine goes mit this ped, put me in some oder ped dot has a tifferent pottle, I cares not what it is.'
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
"Dear little pottle of whims"—so he had christened her—"what new romance will she weave?"
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
There is that woman again: "Strawberries! fourpence a pottle!"
From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Austin Dobson
Rare ripe strawberries and Hautboys, sixpence a pottle.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
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