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Pottle   Listen
noun
Pottle  n.  
1.
A liquid measure of four pints.
2.
A pot or tankard. "A dry pottle of sack before him."
3.
A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. "He had a... pottle of strawberries in one hand."
Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. ( Prov. Eng.)





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"Pottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... POTTLE, EMERY. Is a poet and short-story writer of distinction, now with the Aviation Corps in France, specializing ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the window, before I heard footsteps on the stairs. Gradually there arose before me the hat, head, neckcloth, waistcoat, trousers, boots, of a member of society of about my own standing. He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens


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