† ˈpot-ˌhangle Obs. rare.
[f. pot n.1 + hangle, f. hang v. + -le, suffix of the instrument. (Hangle occurs otherwise only as var. of hingle a hinge.)]
In pl. (const. as sing.) = prec. b.
| 1538 in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 267 Item, a fryeng panne and a peyre of pothangles sold to the seyd Scudamour vj{supd}. Ibid., Item, sold to the baylyf of Staff. a potthangles vij{supd}. 1614 MS. Stratford-on-Avon (Nares), Item, one pothangles, price ij.s. |