pottlen.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɒtl/, U.S.

/ˈpɑd(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English potelle, Middle English potyll, Middle English–1500s potel, Middle English–1600s potell, Middle English–1600s pottel, Middle English–1600s pottell, 1500s potill, 1500s pottyl, 1500s pottyll, 1500s–1600s Scottish potle, 1500s– pottle.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French potel, potelle.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman potel, potell (also potelle) bottle, flask (c1200 or earlier), unit of capacity equal to half a gallon (c1285 or earlier) and Old French, Middle French potel (French regional (Walloon) potiau ) small pot (frequently as unit of capacity used for liquids) (1308), unit of capacity used for dry goods (c1360 or earlier; now obsolete in this sense) < pot pot n.¹ + -el -el suffix². Compare post-classical Latin potellus (also potella, potellum) (frequently 1287–1534 in British sources).Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether the following examples are to be interpreted as showing currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Walter Potel (1265), Robertus Potel (1303).

a. A pot, tankard, or similar container, (usually) spec. one having the capacity of a pottle (sense 1b). Now archaic and historical.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > holding specific amount

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pint pot1383

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gagec1440

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go1788

three-out1836

shant1851

jackshay1867

stein1915

viertel1967

1310 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 78 (MED) [They will not make any other measures than gallons,] potells [and quarts].

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 157 (MED) Hail be ȝe brewesters wiþ ȝur galuns, Potels, and quartes ouer al þe tounes!

1395 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 6 (MED) iij chargeours, j olla, j potell.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. x. 33 The lordli gouernour, the Lord of oostis, schal breke a potel [a1382 litil wyn vessel; L. lagunculam].

1438 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 12 (MED) Also a square potel weinge iiij lb.

1455 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 51 (MED) The Corne Busshell: The feryng and the sealyng..The Galowne, ob.; The Potell, ob.; The quarte, ob.; The Pynte, ob.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 334 The wardens shall make a stryke, halfe stryke, hope & halfe hope, gallon & potell & quarte, the mesurs to be selyd & delyuered to the sellers of oton-meele.

1591 (?a1425) Noah's Flood (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 52 Here is a potell full of malnesaye good and stronge.

1635 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 80 Item one Pottell, 8 panns and one brasse pott 80.0.

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 311 I have..lately procur'd a Roman Pottle from Aldbrough, which is of the Red Clay.

1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. ii. 65 A red pottle containing half a congius.

1777 Compl. Vermin-killer 11 Put Rosin and Brimstone..into an earthen pottle with a narrow neck and a large body.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. v. 339 Then the Van Grolls, of Anthony's Nose, who carried their liquor in fair round little pottles.

1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. i. 24 By his elbow stood a pottle of spiced ale.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxix. 135 As call for a pottle of ale in a tavern.

1979 K. Bonfiglioli After you with Pistol vi. 25 Johanna firmly sent me to bed..with a huge pottle of brandy and soda.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Travel section) 3 There were several outward observances, too, by which he might be known as a pilgrim: an untrimmed beard..a scrip or bag with a pottle or bottle, and, of course, a staff.

b. A unit of capacity used chiefly for liquids (but also for corn and other dry goods, and rarely for butter), equal to half a gallon (approx. 2.3 litres). Now historical.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units

miteOE

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ton tight-

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) v. 10 Forsoþe ten acris of vyneȝerdis shul maken oon potel wyn.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 59 Ye Alderman schal haue..ij galons of ale, euery skeueyn a galon, ye clerk a potel, and ye deen a potel.

c1450 Bk. Marchalsi (Harl. 6398) (1973) f. 36^v (MED) And ȝef hym..þe mountans of a potel.

1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 16 A pottell oyle for the calkers vj^d.

a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 61 (MED) The sayd Burgese schall haffe ye standard..j galon, j potell, and j qwarte.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xii. sig. S j To lerne howe many pottles or gallons is conteyned in that great vessell.

?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. C11^v Take a pottle of damsons.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 697 Containing each of them tenne pottels or thereabout, foure or fiue gallons.

1625 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 229 One potell of canary seck.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 99 Little hony at that time of the year is ordinarily to bee had; a quart, perhaps a pottle, and this is a liberal portion.

1705 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 3) 67/2 Take Damascens one Pottle, prick them and put them into a pint of Rose-water.

1726 Gentleman Farmer 35 I doubled..[the measure of beans] to a Pottle, which was three thousand three hundred and seventy six.

1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xxi. 326 Take a quarter of a pound of hartshorn, and put to it a pottle of water.

1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 473 Who'd keep a cow, when he may have a pottle of milk for a penny?

1940 Lima (Ohio) News 22 Sept. 13/6 In measuring beer or ale, two pints make one quart; two quarts make one pottle; two pottles make one gallon.

1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 172 In violation of orders that sought to limit ale measures to the standard of quart, pottle, and gallon, she sells her best ale in nonstandard cup measures.

c. A pottle of wine or other alcoholic drink; drink, liquor. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]

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mother's milkc1821

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medicine1847

stimulant1848

booze1859

tiddly1859

neck oil1860

lotion1864

shrab1867

nose paint1880

fixing1882

wet1894

rabbit1895

shicker1900

jollop1920

mule1920

giggle-water1929

rookus juice1929

River Ouse1931

juice1932

lunatic soup1933

wallop1933

skimish1936

sauce1940

turps1945

grog1946

joy juice1960

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > in vessel

pot1583

wassail-bowl1606

pottle1632

gyle-ker1775

yard of ale1872

yard-glass1882

1632 N. Goodman Hollands Leaguer sig. E Calling to mind a Tauerne that stood at the next doore, he woes the Keeper there, by all meanes, to take another Pottle.

1657 E. Benlowes Summary of Wisedome sig. A4^v Each pottle breeds a Ruby, Drawer, score 'um: Cheeks dy'd in Claret, seem o'th' Quorum.

?1670 in Robert Earl of Oxford Ancient Songs & Ballads (1774) I. 298/2 Yet scrambling up a Drunkard feels no pain, but crys Sirrah hoy, rother pottle again.

1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 126 I do not learn..That you shall..drink your pottle weaker at the wake.

1996 Times (Nexis) 3 June A month from now and the England players can sup as many pottles as they like.

2. A small basket, esp. one of a conical shape used for holding strawberries or other soft fruit. Now rare (historical in later use).

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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fruit or vegetables

fraila1382

top1440

tapnet1524

fig-frail1608

flat1640

raisin frail1669

chip basket1758

pottle1771

sievea1800

punnet1822

trug1836

bodge1876

molly1883

handle1900

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 214 She sent us a pottle of fine strawberries.

1847 C. A. Johns Forest Trees Great Brit. I. 341 The neat-looking, but very inconvenient, basket for holding strawberries, called a pottle, is made of Beech.

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxxi One never sees a pottle of strawberries now.

1926 C. Dane Spinster's Rest in C. Asquith Ghost-Book ii. 127 ‘Better give 'em strawberries and cream...’ And when..she overlooked the quick-passing pottles that she had been filling all the morning, she saw that there was indeed enough.

1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 June 8/1 They [sc. strawberries] were so precious that country girls used to weave special baskets called pottles to cradle this delicious fruit.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, esp. with the sense ‘having a capacity of one pottle (sense 1b)’.

† pottle bottle n. Obsolete

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle

pottle bottle1393

quart bottle1454

flagon1470

demijohn1769

bidon1867

noggin bottle1894

Euro bottle1962

1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 154 iiij paribus potel botels.

1728 W. Byrd Secret Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 83 He also sent him a Pottle-Bottle of Strong Beer.

† pottle-draught n. Obsolete rare

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1639 J. Mayne Citye Match iii. iii. 29 I shall be glad To give thanks for you, Sir, in pottle draughts.

† pottle-pitcher n. Obsolete

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a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 402 Another..brought a pottel pycher, A tonnel, and a bottell.

1554–7 in J. Nichols Illustr. Manners & Expences Antient Times in Eng. (1797) 222 Item, payd for a pottle pycher.

C2.

† pottle-bellied adj. [compare earlier pot-bellied adj.] Obsolete pot-bellied; also figurative.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of

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out-bellied1570

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big-bellied1592

round-bellied1606

gutty1607

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tun-grown1628

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belly-mountained1654

pauncheda1657

sag-bellied1665

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ventricous1702

poke pudding1705

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pot-gutted1731

paunchfula1763

pottle-bellied1777

tunnified1806

tun-likea1813

shad-bellied1832

ventricose1843

bow-windowed1849

bloated-bellied1871

barrel-stomached1884

stomachy1888

well-stomached1896

jelly-bellied1899

narrow-gutted1903

pus-gutted1915

great-stomached1944

1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 337 [Devon] Pottle-Bellied—Ventricosus, obesus, Tog-bellied, with a Belly like a Pot, or large Bottle.

1849 W. F. Lynch Narr. U.S. Exped. River Jordan & Dead Sea ix. 205 ‘Pottle-bellied children’, with hair unkempt and streaming in a scalp-lock.., were rolling on the grass.

1865 R. W. Buchanan Poet. Wks. (1901) I. 87 Words pottle-bellied, meaningless, and strange, That strutted up and down the printed page, Like bailies made to bluster and look big.

† pottle-bodied adj. Obsolete stout, fat.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

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1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 188 He saw A something-pottle-bodied boy, That knuckled at the taw.

1899 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 533 The spinner of the stuff crouches itself out of sight, pretending it belongs to the corner, is, in fact, part of the corner, its extreme angle, and not a pottle-bodied, edible spider.

pottle-crowned adj. rare (of a hat) having a crown like a small pot.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1907 N.E.D. at Pottle n.¹ Pottle-crowned.

pottle-deep adj. and adv. chiefly literary (a) adj. (of a drink) that would fill a pottle, generous; (of a bout of drinking) copious, heavy; (b) adv. (of drinking) copiously, heavily.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [adjective] > relating to depth of pottle

pottle-deepa1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 50 Roderigo..To Desdemona, hath to night caroust Potations pottle deepe.

1673 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company (ed. 2) I. 167 Whatever the Liquor be, they do but sip it off by degrees, never Potations, as we say Pottle-deep.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 124 The life of a Lord..consists principally of his amours, his pottle deep potations, his politics, and his—hazards.

1863 A. Trollope N. Amer. 41 The men of Maine drank pottle deep before Mr. Neil Dow brought his exertions to a successful termination.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) v. 47 He brimmed his goblet with a rough tawny wine..and drank to her, pottle-deep.

1949 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 24 Nov. 2 (advt.) Potations, pottle-deep, we have in stock.

Derivatives

ˈpottled adj. †(a) produced under the influence of alcohol (obsolete); (b) placed or packed in a pottle (in various senses).

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > produced under influence of alcohol

pottled1568

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles

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casked1624

pocketed1647

tunned1672

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basined1745

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pottled1845

carboyed1855

tubbed1882

sacked1895

pouched1905

cartoned1921

cupped1929

ampouled1969

slipcased1969

1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 23 As potled tales they prate aloft, so thende will proue but vaine.

a1828 J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage in W. Winter Life & Art J. Jefferson (1894) i. 25 A dozen of the prawns, which, lying at the top, happened to be the largest, in the manner of pottled strawberries, to cover a hundred small ones.

1845 E. Cook Old Cries ii ‘Old Cries’, ‘old cries’..From ‘Haut~boys’, pottled in the sun, To the loud wish that cometh when The tune of midnight ‘waits’ is done.

2002 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 22 A nice line of self-serve pottled icecream.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pottle
释义	pottlen.¹ Brit. /ˈpɒtl/, U.S. /ˈpɑd(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English potelle, Middle English potyll, Middle English–1500s potel, Middle English–1600s potell, Middle English–1600s pottel, Middle English–1600s pottell, 1500s potill, 1500s pottyl, 1500s pottyll, 1500s–1600s Scottish potle, 1500s– pottle. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French potel, potelle. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman potel, potell (also potelle) bottle, flask (c1200 or earlier), unit of capacity equal to half a gallon (c1285 or earlier) and Old French, Middle French potel (French regional (Walloon) potiau ) small pot (frequently as unit of capacity used for liquids) (1308), unit of capacity used for dry goods (c1360 or earlier; now obsolete in this sense) < pot pot n.¹ + -el -el suffix². Compare post-classical Latin potellus (also potella, potellum) (frequently 1287–1534 in British sources).Apparently attested earlier as a surname, although it is unclear whether the following examples are to be interpreted as showing currency of the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: Walter Potel (1265), Robertus Potel (1303). 1. a. A pot, tankard, or similar container, (usually) spec. one having the capacity of a pottle (sense 1b). Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > holding specific amount pint1354 pint pot1383 potteler1386 pottle pot1392 gagec1440 quart stoup1452 thirdendeal1571 pint stoup1638 triental1656 pottle1698 go1788 three-out1836 shant1851 jackshay1867 stein1915 viertel1967 1310 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 78 (MED) [They will not make any other measures than gallons,] potells [and quarts]. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 157 (MED) Hail be ȝe brewesters wiþ ȝur galuns, Potels, and quartes ouer al þe tounes! 1395 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 6 (MED) iij chargeours, j olla, j potell. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. x. 33 The lordli gouernour, the Lord of oostis, schal breke a potel [a1382 litil wyn vessel; L. lagunculam]. 1438 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 12 (MED) Also a square potel weinge iiij lb. 1455 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 51 (MED) The Corne Busshell: The feryng and the sealyng..The Galowne, ob.; The Potell, ob.; The quarte, ob.; The Pynte, ob. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 334 The wardens shall make a stryke, halfe stryke, hope & halfe hope, gallon & potell & quarte, the mesurs to be selyd & delyuered to the sellers of oton-meele. 1591 (?a1425) Noah's Flood (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 52 Here is a potell full of malnesaye good and stronge. 1635 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 80 Item one Pottell, 8 panns and one brasse pott 80.0. 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 311 I have..lately procur'd a Roman Pottle from Aldbrough, which is of the Red Clay. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. ii. 65 A red pottle containing half a congius. 1777 Compl. Vermin-killer 11 Put Rosin and Brimstone..into an earthen pottle with a narrow neck and a large body. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. v. 339 Then the Van Grolls, of Anthony's Nose, who carried their liquor in fair round little pottles. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. i. 24 By his elbow stood a pottle of spiced ale. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxix. 135 As call for a pottle of ale in a tavern. 1979 K. Bonfiglioli After you with Pistol vi. 25 Johanna firmly sent me to bed..with a huge pottle of brandy and soda. 2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Travel section) 3 There were several outward observances, too, by which he might be known as a pilgrim: an untrimmed beard..a scrip or bag with a pottle or bottle, and, of course, a staff. b. A unit of capacity used chiefly for liquids (but also for corn and other dry goods, and rarely for butter), equal to half a gallon (approx. 2.3 litres). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units miteOE meta1325 suma1325 measurec1325 last1341 maund1365 pottlea1382 mug1400 mutchkin?1425 eightin-dele1440 rotec1484 sixtera1492 stortkyn1501 tolbot1536 firlot1549 sleek1705 modius1802 ton tight- a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) v. 10 Forsoþe ten acris of vyneȝerdis shul maken oon potel wyn. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 59 Ye Alderman schal haue..ij galons of ale, euery skeueyn a galon, ye clerk a potel, and ye deen a potel. c1450 Bk. Marchalsi (Harl. 6398) (1973) f. 36^v (MED) And ȝef hym..þe mountans of a potel. 1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 16 A pottell oyle for the calkers vj^d. a1500 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 61 (MED) The sayd Burgese schall haffe ye standard..j galon, j potell, and j qwarte. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xii. sig. S j To lerne howe many pottles or gallons is conteyned in that great vessell. ?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. C11^v Take a pottle of damsons. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 697 Containing each of them tenne pottels or thereabout, foure or fiue gallons. 1625 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 229 One potell of canary seck. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 99 Little hony at that time of the year is ordinarily to bee had; a quart, perhaps a pottle, and this is a liberal portion. 1705 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 3) 67/2 Take Damascens one Pottle, prick them and put them into a pint of Rose-water. 1726 Gentleman Farmer 35 I doubled..[the measure of beans] to a Pottle, which was three thousand three hundred and seventy six. 1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) xxi. 326 Take a quarter of a pound of hartshorn, and put to it a pottle of water. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 473 Who'd keep a cow, when he may have a pottle of milk for a penny? 1940 Lima (Ohio) News 22 Sept. 13/6 In measuring beer or ale, two pints make one quart; two quarts make one pottle; two pottles make one gallon. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 172 In violation of orders that sought to limit ale measures to the standard of quart, pottle, and gallon, she sells her best ale in nonstandard cup measures. c. A pottle of wine or other alcoholic drink; drink, liquor. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > amount of drink > in vessel pot1583 wassail-bowl1606 pottle1632 gyle-ker1775 yard of ale1872 yard-glass1882 1632 N. Goodman Hollands Leaguer sig. E Calling to mind a Tauerne that stood at the next doore, he woes the Keeper there, by all meanes, to take another Pottle. 1657 E. Benlowes Summary of Wisedome sig. A4^v Each pottle breeds a Ruby, Drawer, score 'um: Cheeks dy'd in Claret, seem o'th' Quorum. ?1670 in Robert Earl of Oxford Ancient Songs & Ballads (1774) I. 298/2 Yet scrambling up a Drunkard feels no pain, but crys Sirrah hoy, rother pottle again. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 126 I do not learn..That you shall..drink your pottle weaker at the wake. 1996 Times (Nexis) 3 June A month from now and the England players can sup as many pottles as they like. 2. A small basket, esp. one of a conical shape used for holding strawberries or other soft fruit. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fruit or vegetables fraila1382 top1440 tapnet1524 fig-frail1608 flat1640 raisin frail1669 chip basket1758 pottle1771 sievea1800 punnet1822 trug1836 bodge1876 molly1883 handle1900 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 214 She sent us a pottle of fine strawberries. 1847 C. A. Johns Forest Trees Great Brit. I. 341 The neat-looking, but very inconvenient, basket for holding strawberries, called a pottle, is made of Beech. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxxi One never sees a pottle of strawberries now. 1926 C. Dane Spinster's Rest in C. Asquith Ghost-Book ii. 127 ‘Better give 'em strawberries and cream...’ And when..she overlooked the quick-passing pottles that she had been filling all the morning, she saw that there was indeed enough. 1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 June 8/1 They [sc. strawberries] were so precious that country girls used to weave special baskets called pottles to cradle this delicious fruit. Compounds C1. General attributive, esp. with the sense ‘having a capacity of one pottle (sense 1b)’. † pottle bottle n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle pottle bottle1393 quart bottle1454 flagon1470 demijohn1769 bidon1867 noggin bottle1894 Euro bottle1962 1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 154 iiij paribus potel botels. 1728 W. Byrd Secret Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 83 He also sent him a Pottle-Bottle of Strong Beer. † pottle-draught n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1639 J. Mayne Citye Match iii. iii. 29 I shall be glad To give thanks for you, Sir, in pottle draughts. † pottle-pitcher n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 402 Another..brought a pottel pycher, A tonnel, and a bottell. 1554–7 in J. Nichols Illustr. Manners & Expences Antient Times in Eng. (1797) 222 Item, payd for a pottle pycher. C2. † pottle-bellied adj. [compare earlier pot-bellied adj.] Obsolete pot-bellied; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of great-wombedc1325 wombedc1325 big-bellied?c1475 gorbellieda1529 tunnisha1529 bellieda1533 gorbelly1532 tun-bellied1551 out-bellied1570 paunch-bellied1586 paunchyc1586 big-bellied1592 round-bellied1606 gutty1607 tun-gutted1607 ventripotent1611 swag-bellieda1616 tun-grown1628 bottle-bellied1646 pot-bellied1647 belly-mountained1654 pauncheda1657 sag-bellied1665 barrel-bellied1694 ventricous1702 poke pudding1705 paunch-gutted1726 pot-gutted1731 paunchfula1763 pottle-bellied1777 tunnified1806 tun-likea1813 shad-bellied1832 ventricose1843 bow-windowed1849 bloated-bellied1871 barrel-stomached1884 stomachy1888 well-stomached1896 jelly-bellied1899 narrow-gutted1903 pus-gutted1915 great-stomached1944 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 337 [Devon] Pottle-Bellied—Ventricosus, obesus, Tog-bellied, with a Belly like a Pot, or large Bottle. 1849 W. F. Lynch Narr. U.S. Exped. River Jordan & Dead Sea ix. 205 ‘Pottle-bellied children’, with hair unkempt and streaming in a scalp-lock.., were rolling on the grass. 1865 R. W. Buchanan Poet. Wks. (1901) I. 87 Words pottle-bellied, meaningless, and strange, That strutted up and down the printed page, Like bailies made to bluster and look big. † pottle-bodied adj. Obsolete stout, fat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 188 He saw A something-pottle-bodied boy, That knuckled at the taw. 1899 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 533 The spinner of the stuff crouches itself out of sight, pretending it belongs to the corner, is, in fact, part of the corner, its extreme angle, and not a pottle-bodied, edible spider. pottle-crowned adj. rare (of a hat) having a crown like a small pot.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1907 N.E.D. at Pottle n.¹ Pottle-crowned. pottle-deep adj. and adv. chiefly literary (a) adj. (of a drink) that would fill a pottle, generous; (of a bout of drinking) copious, heavy; (b) adv. (of drinking) copiously, heavily. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [adjective] > relating to depth of pottle pottle-deepa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 50 Roderigo..To Desdemona, hath to night caroust Potations pottle deepe. 1673 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company (ed. 2) I. 167 Whatever the Liquor be, they do but sip it off by degrees, never Potations, as we say Pottle-deep. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 124 The life of a Lord..consists principally of his amours, his pottle deep potations, his politics, and his—hazards. 1863 A. Trollope N. Amer. 41 The men of Maine drank pottle deep before Mr. Neil Dow brought his exertions to a successful termination. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) v. 47 He brimmed his goblet with a rough tawny wine..and drank to her, pottle-deep. 1949 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 24 Nov. 2 (advt.) Potations, pottle-deep, we have in stock. Derivatives ˈpottled adj. †(a) produced under the influence of alcohol (obsolete); (b) placed or packed in a pottle (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > produced under influence of alcohol pottled1568 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles barrelled1494 casked1624 pocketed1647 tunned1672 intubed1688 kitted1725 basined1745 canistered1843 pottled1845 carboyed1855 tubbed1882 sacked1895 pouched1905 cartoned1921 cupped1929 ampouled1969 slipcased1969 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 23 As potled tales they prate aloft, so thende will proue but vaine. a1828 J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage in W. Winter Life & Art J. Jefferson (1894) i. 25 A dozen of the prawns, which, lying at the top, happened to be the largest, in the manner of pottled strawberries, to cover a hundred small ones. 1845 E. Cook Old Cries ii ‘Old Cries’, ‘old cries’..From ‘Haut~boys’, pottled in the sun, To the loud wish that cometh when The tune of midnight ‘waits’ is done. 2002 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 22 A nice line of self-serve pottled icecream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pottlen.² Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps from a use of pottle n.¹ as a grain measure (compare sense 1b at that entry), i.e. denoting land which would produce this amount in taxable value. Obsolete. A measure of land equivalent to twelve acres (approx. 4.86 hectares). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > twelve acres pottle1594 1594 in 16th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland (1884) in Parl. Papers (C. 4062) XXI. 5849 A half pottle of land in Croskeaghe..one pottle of land in Dravile..1 and a half pottles in Dromolaighe. 1689 R. Cox Hibernia Anglicana: Pt. 1 Explan. Index Pottle of Land is twelve Acres. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). pottlen.³ Brit. /ˈpɒtl/, U.S. /ˈpɑd(ə)l/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bottle n.⁴ Etymology: Variant of bottle n.⁴ Now rare. = bottle n.⁴ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw feald?14.. bottlec1405 bunch?a1505 straw wisp?a1513 stook1571 wad1573 botillage1576 windling1645 pottle1730 bolting1784 strike1817 windle1825 wap1828 hay-pack1841 wake1847 plack1871 tibbin1900 1730 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 2) ii. viii. 14 The unhappy Sempstress, once, they say, Her Needle in a Pottle, lost, of Hay. 1735 W. Mountfort Life & Death Faustus iii. 35 When I came just in the midst of the River, I found my self a straddle on a Pottle of Hay. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman II. ii. 27 ‘And we are to set to find a needle in the pottle of hay,’ replied his companion. 1864 Times 5 May 2/5 Iceland ponies..do not aspire to oats, but have a great desire for a pottle of hay. 1912 J. Conrad Personal Rec. Pref. 2 I believe there are men who can lay hold of a needle in a pottle of hay at the first try. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pottlen.⁴ Brit. /ˈpɒtl/, U.S. /ˈpɑd(ə)l/ Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pot n.¹, -le suffix. Etymology: Apparently < pot n.¹ (although this is apparently first attested later in the relevant spec. sense ‘marble’: see pot n.¹ 3a) + -le suffix. Compare pot n.¹ 3c. English regional (south-western). = hopscotch n. Also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1822 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 334 I have as little inclination to write verses as to play at pottle or whip a top. 1924 Western Daily Press 20 Mar. 9/4 Hop-scotch is known here by the name of Pottles, and the shard or piece of wood scuffed across the ground is called a Pottle. 1998 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 29 Sept. 2 Youngsters..played games like marbles,..skipping, pottle and five stones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1310n.²1594n.³1730n.⁴1822
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