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pottle (POT-l) - n., an Imperial liquid measure equal to 2 quarts or 1⁄2 gallon; a container of this capacity.
Also, in New Zealand, a container for foodstuffs, such as hot chips. One dictionary also adds "a dish made by Connecticut fishermen by frying pork in the bottom of a kettle, then adding water, and stewing in the water pieces of fresh fish," which I'm going to mark as Obs. I always liked the ladder of gill, cup, pint, quart, (something), gallon, which meant it always bugged me that there wasn't a name for (something) -- well, it turns out there was, and it's pottle. Attested from the 13th century, formed in Anglo-Normal as a diminutive of pot.
---L.
Also, in New Zealand, a container for foodstuffs, such as hot chips. One dictionary also adds "a dish made by Connecticut fishermen by frying pork in the bottom of a kettle, then adding water, and stewing in the water pieces of fresh fish," which I'm going to mark as Obs. I always liked the ladder of gill, cup, pint, quart, (something), gallon, which meant it always bugged me that there wasn't a name for (something) -- well, it turns out there was, and it's pottle. Attested from the 13th century, formed in Anglo-Normal as a diminutive of pot.
---L.
