POTTLE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A liquid measure of four pints.

2.
n.

A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott.

3.
n.

A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


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