Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pottle"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pottle \Pot"tle\, n. [OE. potel, OF. potel, dim. of pot. See
{Pot}.]
1. A liquid measure of four pints.

2. A pot or tankard. --Shak.

A dry pottle of sack before him. --Sir W.
Scott.

3. 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

pottle
n : a pot that holds 2 quarts

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