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pot-waller

pot-waller is the alternative form of potwaller.

Meaning of potwaller

Noun

potwaller (plural potwallers)

  1. (historical) A man with his own fireplace where a pot of water could be boiled, thus qualifying him to vote in a parliamentary election in certain English boroughs before the 1832 Reform Act.

Forms of pot-waller

pluralpot-wallers

Questions about pot-waller

What is pot-waller the alternative form of?
Pot-waller is the alternative form of potwaller.

Words near pot-waller in the dictionary

  1. pot-shot
  2. pot-shots
  3. pot-valiancy
  4. pot-valiant
  5. pot-valor
  6. pot-waller
  7. pot-wallers
  8. pot-walloner
  9. pot-walloners
  10. pot-walloper
  11. pot-wallopers

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