pottle-pot
(ˈpɒt(ə)lpɒt)
[f. pottle + pot n.1]
A two-quart pot or tankard.
| 1413 in E.E. Wills (1882) 22, Y be-quethe tho [to] William my sone, a new bras pot..an a potel pot of peuwter. 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. 87 There came a man out of the towne with a pinte of wine in a pottle pot to welcome the provost of that house [King's College]. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV ii. ii. 83. 1740 E. Baynard Health (ed. 6) p. viii, Why should Men dread a Cannon Bore Yet boldly 'proach a Pottle-pot? 1841 James Brigand viii, Truth and my brains lie together at the bottom of the second pottle-pot. |
b. transf. A heavy drinker, a drunkard.
| 1860 Sala in Cornh. Mag. I. 580 Edward Ward..although a low-lived pottlepot at the best of times, makes some honest remarks concerning the barbarous treatment of the women in Bridewell. |