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Definition of Pottles
1. pottle [n] - See also: pottle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pottles
Literary usage of Pottles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Letter to the Bishop of Bangor: Wherein His Lordship's Notions of by William Law (1717)
"... has made no difference between Him and his A pottles, as to this Absolving
Authority. ... pottles ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"... and Word» of the Л pottles ( trans. 1869). See the Life by his sons (Wittenberg,
1868). Stiff Neck. See NECK. Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, ..."
3. The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian by Francis Sanders, William Fergusson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1883)
"For instance, for " 120 dozen of ale " we must read " wine ; " and " 70 pigs "
should be " pies ; " for " 280 pottles of French beans," there is simply "200 ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"DEWLAP, astounded by the intelligence. " And do you think, MB. pottles, that you
can dare tc hope to continue to serve me with peas shelled over night ? ..."
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