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pottle

[ UK /pˈɒtə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑtəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pot that holds 2 quarts

How To Use pottle In A Sentence

  • The pot hadn't bin idle all the time; it kep 'bilin' away, pottle, wottle, pottle, wottle. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
  • I wish I could pottle the smell of the damp, earthy air. [britain] easy on my mind
  • Thirdly, and to conclude, as our worthy preacher says, beware of the pottle-pot — it has drenched the judgment of wiser men than you. The Abbot
  • The recipe in ‘Proper newe’ calls for eight eggs and a pottle of cream.
  • We rested for a couple of hours, and I wished to God I had just one good waterskin instead of the pathetic little pottle at my belt. Isabelle
  • Pottley, of the London train-bands, and by the look of the papers around them they had been checking the lists (as two days later there was heavy court-martialling among the newly arrived drafts and cashiering of officers that had misbehaved in Middlesex). Corporal Sam and Other Stories
  • “It was but one small pottle,” said poor Adam, whom consciousness of his own indiscretion now reduced to a merely defensive warfare. The Abbot
  • The bird was then pounded in a mortar, distilled with a lot of sack - a pottle was half a gallon, or four pints - and the milk.
  • There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?” The Talisman
  • `The Wordman is ruthless in performance, but not in retrospection ,' wrote Pottle. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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