A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pot(t)le, n. [e.m.E. and ME potel (a 1300), pot(t)ell (15th c.), pottle, liquid measure of half a gallon (a 1300), a vessel containing a pottle (1698), liquor (a 1700), OF potel little pot (1308 in Godef.) f. pot (cf. Pot(t n.1).] A pot or vessel (and the liquor it contains); a pottle. —1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) ii 43.
By silver potles [1751 bottles] fill'd with pish Ib. (1751) 146.
They … Runs to their pottle which they mind most, Crying [etc.] c1682 Louis de France Music Bk. 51.
Cum away to the tavern … leave your pritle pratle and fill us a potle
