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pottlepots

pottlepots is the plural of pottlepot.

Meaning of pottlepot

Noun

pottlepot (plural pottlepots)

  1. (archaic) A pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol.
    • ... and help her with the yeast , and filling the pottlepots of ale out of the tubs.1848, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, page 122
  2. (archaic) An alcoholic, a drunkard.
    • It is true that he departed in quest of some Carpenter's Tools, which he declare would do the job quite as well; but, again to my good luck, the carpenter was as Rare a pottlepot as he, and they two took to boiling rum in a calabash and [drinking].1862, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 307

Questions about pottlepots

What is pottlepots the plural of?
Pottlepots is the plural of pottlepot.

Words near pottlepots in the dictionary

  1. pottioid
  2. pottle
  3. pottled
  4. pottleful
  5. pottlepot
  6. pottlepots
  7. pottles
  8. pottling
  9. potto
  10. Potton
  11. Pottons

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