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

Example Sentences

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

None, I protest: but I’ll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook; only for a jest.

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

"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 Standish, Burt L.

He had liefer a gold noble and a pottle of canary wine than all the vengeances in purgatory.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ripe strawberries, a full pottle for a groat!

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles