Meaning of pottle | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   archaic
2. A surname.
3. A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
   New-Zealand
4. A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
   archaic

Examples

“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”

“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 enough to look⟳ over his shoulder.”

“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.”

“In recent weeks, he’s been taken aback by the price of the fresh fruit and vegetables they use⟳ for their pottles of raw fish⟳.”

“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.”

“2005, Dan Keding and Amy Douglas (eds.), English Folktales, World Folklore Series, Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, page 21, "I was wondering whether you’ve got such a thing as a pottle of brains to spare⟳?"”

CEFR level