单词 | pot-walloner |
释义 | † pot-wallonern. English regional (south-western). Obsolete. = potwaller n.Apparently only used in Taunton, Somerset. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > by specific qualification potwaller1701 pot-wobblera1712 pot-walloner1725 potboiler1736 potwalloper1744 ten-pounder1833 1725 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. II. ii. 21 This Town [sc. Taunton] chooses Two Members of Parliament, and their Way of choosing is, by those whom they call Pot-Walloners [in ed. 1742 and ed. 1753 Pot-Walloners; in ed. 1769 Pot-Wallopers], that is to say, Every Inhabitant, whether House-keeper or Lodger, that dresses their own Victuals. ?a1749 Upton MS Add. to Junius (Halliw.) Tanodunii in agro Somersetensi vocantur Pot~walliners. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Taunton The election of members of Pt. here is very singular, every pot-walloner, i.e. that dresses his own victuals, is intitled to vote. 1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset III. 226 Taunton..has returned members to parliament from the years 1294, 23 Edw. I. The right of choosing these members is vested in the parishioners boiling their own pot (hence called Pot-Walloners) residing within the limits of the borough, not being stated paupers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1725 |
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