Pottle

Quick meaning: Pottle is a noun meaning (transitive) To place in a pottle.

Meaning

(transitive) To place in a pottle.

More Meanings

1. (New Zealand) A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.
2. (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.
3. (archaic) A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.

Example Sentences

Outside, I ripped open the bag to reveal the chips were sitting inside a paper pottle. A pottle!

c. 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore Part 2, London: Nathaniel Butter, 1630, a pottle of Greeke wine

Did you know that the six and four-pack pottle yogurts – the kind we buy for lunches – can’t be recycled.

Strawberry pottles are often half cabbage leaves, a few tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the pottle.

Word Forms

• pottles
• pottling
• pottled

Synonyms for pottle

Depending on context, synonyms include punnet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pottlepot, pottleful, pott, half-pint, quart-pot, gage.

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