Meaning of pottleful | Babel Free

Definitions

The amount that a pottle will hold.

Examples

“Fil a pottleful of clean red wine and put therein the powder of Cinamon,Cloves,Ginger,Parietary, Nutmegs, Gallingale,Spikenard, Muct, Quinbilois, Grains, Sage, Mints, Rue, Calamint, Long-pepper,...”

“He darted to the corn bin, got a great pottleful of oats, and shot into her stall.”

“Your Christian Scientist, though inspired by an absolutely sane faith that trust in the divine life which all men share will effect unsuspected wonders of healing without the help of drugs, brings himself and his system into ridicule when he refuses a dose of castor oil to a child with a pottleful of rotten strawberries in his little belly.”

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