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(archaic) A pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol..
Maillotin du Bac seemed determined that, as far as the quality of his favours went, no jealousy should exist between the trencher and the pottlepot.
... and help her with the yeast , and filling the pottlepots of ale out of the tubs.
The largest, or “galonier,” twelve inches high, contains eight pints; the next or “Pottlepot,” about nine inches and a half high, holds four pints; another, eight inches and a half high, a quart; and the smallest, six inches in height, one pint.
Barnaby Rich is exceedingly angry with the inventor of the custom, which, however, with a laudable zeal for the honour of his country, he attributes to an Englishman, who, it seems, "had his brains beat out with a pottlepot" for his ingenuity […]
[…] notably — for a vacuum, and that in a few years the lack of all rational diversions, the pulling down of maypoles, the silencing of all music but psalm-singing, would drive man and woman to try and drown care in the pottlepot.
It is true that he departed in quest of some Carpenter's Tools, which he declare would do the job quite as well; but, again to my good luck, the carpenter was as Rare a pottlepot as he, and they two took to boiling rum in a calabash and [drinking].
"Thou art no man (she saith) —thou art a Pottlepot!" "No man," I saith. "No man!" she saith. And "Pottlepot" thereto! "Thou sleepest like our dog all day; thou drink'st as fishes do."
[…] wains—I trust it is only the medicine of the pottlepot, (being the only medicamentum which the beast useth,) which hath caused him to tarry on the road.
Use pottlepot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pottlepot means (archaic) A pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol..
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Maillotin du Bac seemed determined that, as far as the quality of his favours went, no jealousy should exist between the trencher and the pottlepot.
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