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

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 Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)

Id vill simbly gost you von tollar a pottle, dree bottles vor dwo tollars.

From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Standish, Burt L.

But I had no appetite for earthly things, was jarred by the prosaic gusto with which the mystics threw themselves upon the tureen of red Borsch and the black pottle of brandy.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

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

As Shakespeare says, ‘The world is my pottle, and I stir my spoon.’

From The Associate Hermits by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)