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pottle


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pottle  \Pot"tle\,  n.  [OE.  potel,  OF  potel,  dim.  of  pot.  See 
  {Pot}.] 
  1.  A  liquid  measure  of  four  pints. 
 
  2.  A  pot  or  tankard.  --Shak. 
 
  A  dry  pottle  of  sack  before  him  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  3.  A  vessel  or  small  basket  for  holding  fruit. 
 
  He  had  a  .  .  .  pottle  of  strawberries  in  one  hand. 
  --Dickens. 
 
  {Pottle  draught},  taking  a  pottle  of  liquor  at  one  draught.  [ 
  Prov.  Eng.]  --Halliwell. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pottle 
  n  :  a  pot  that  holds  2  quarts 




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