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pottle
/ˈpɒtəl/
noun 3verb 1name 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
dry, next
POTTLE + NOUN
greeke, wine
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled.
c. 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1630, a pottle of Greeke wine
2
A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
Outside, I ripped open the bag to reveal the chips were sitting inside a paper pottle. A pottle!
Did you know that the six and four-pack pottle yogurts – the kind we buy for lunches – can’t be recycled.
3
A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
Strawberry pottles are often half cabbage leaves, a few tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the pottle.
He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath.
verb
1
To place in a pottle.
name
1
A surname.
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Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled.
Wiktionary02
c. 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1630, a pottle of Greeke wine
Wiktionary03
And yonder sate Desborough with a dry pottle of sack before him, which he had just emptied, and which, though the element in which he trusted, had not restored him sense enough to speak, or courage en
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