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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