pottle
(noun) a pot that holds 2 quarts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Pottle (plural Pottles)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pottle is the 28552nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 835 individuals. Pottle is most common among White (96.05%) individuals.
pottle (plural pottles)
(archaic) A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
(New Zealand) A receptacle, typically for potato chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
(archaic) A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
• (a receptacle for strawberries): punnet (British, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
Source: Wiktionary
Pot"tle, n. Etym: [OE. potel, OF. potel, dim. of pot. See Pot.]
1. A liquid measure of four pints.
2. A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott.
3. A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 May 2025
(noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; “he sent a runner over with the contract”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
