pottle
/ˈpɒtəl/
pottle noun: a former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
Noun
pottle (plural pottles)
- A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
- Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- a pottle of Greeke winec. 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1630
- A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
- Outside, I ripped open the bag to reveal the chips were sitting inside a paper pottle. A pottle!2019, Tara Ward, “The Spinoff Reviews New Zealand #94: Ōkato’s award-winning hot chips”, in The Spinoff
- Did you know that the six and four-pack pottle yogurts – the kind we buy for lunches – can’t be recycled.2023, Sarah Heeringa, “There's something to know about this yogurt – and it's not what you think”, in Stuff
- A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
- Strawberry pottles are often half cabbage leaves, a few tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the pottle.1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the tricks of costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume I
- He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 26
- Synonyms:
- punnet
Verb
pottle (third-person singular simple present pottles, present participle pottling, simple past and past participle pottled)
- To place in a pottle.
Proper noun capitalized: Pottle
Pottle (plural Pottles)
- A surname.
pottle meaning in Telugu
pottle in Telugu
- pottle
- కొలిచేబుట్ట kolicēbuṭṭa
Synonyms of pottle
Forms of pottle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pottles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pottles |
| present participle | pottling |
| past participle | pottled |
| past | pottled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pottles |
Origin of pottle
From Middle English potell, potel, from Old French potel, diminutive of pot; see more at pot.
Words formed from pottle
Words that rhyme with pottle
Questions about pottle
- What does pottle mean?
- Pottle means a former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
- What is pottle in Telugu?
- Pottle in Telugu is కొలిచేబుట్ట (kolicēbuṭṭa). See Pottle meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is pottle?
- Pottle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pottle?
- Pottle is pronounced /ˈpɒtəl/.
- What is the plural of pottle?
- The plural of pottle is pottles.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pottle (page history and authors); Pottle (page history and authors); కొలిచేబుట్ట (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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