pottle

American  

[pot-l] / ˈpɒt l /

noun

1. a former liquid measure equal to two quarts.

2. a pot or tankard of this capacity.

3. the wine or other liquid in it.

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pottle British  

/ ˈpɒtəl /

noun

1. archaic a liquid measure equal to half a gallon

2. a plastic or cardboard container for foods such as yoghurt, fruit salad, or cottage cheese

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Etymology

Origin of pottle

1250–1300; Middle English potel < Middle French, diminutive of pot pot ¹; see -elle

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Example Sentences

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pottle

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

Josselyn, writing in 1671, gives a New England dish, which he says is as good as whitpot, made of oatmeal, sugar, spice, and a "pottle of milk;" a pottle was two quarts.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

Pott′le-bod′ied, having a body shaped like a pottle; Pott′le-deep, to the bottom of the tankard.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Fal: Bardolfe brew me a pottle sack presently: Bar: With Egges sir?

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

"Uf one pottle don'd gure you, der dree pottles vill—or kill you, und nopody vill mindt dot."

From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

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