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Potwalloper - Wikipedia
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) or householder borough was a voter in a parliamentary borough in which the franchise was extended to the ...
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POTWALLOPER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of POTWALLOPER is a voter living in an English borough before the Reform Act of 1832 and qualifying for suffrage as a householder by the boiling ...
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potwaller, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun potwaller is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for potwaller is from 1701, in Orig. Journals House of Commons ...
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potwaller
potwaller (ˈpɒtˌwɒlə(r)) [f. pot n.1 + waller, agent-n. from wall v., OE. weallan to boil.] lit. = pot-boiler, the boiler of a pot: the term applied in some English boroughs, before the Reform Act of 1832, to a man qualified for a parliamentary vote as a householder (i.e. tenant of a house or distin...
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Potwallopers - Westward Ho! History
The term 'potwallopers' has been in existence since 1725 and is an alteration of the word 'Potwaller' (1701) which meant a man who qualified for a ...
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POTWALLOPER Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Potwalloper definition: (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, ...
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potwaller - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(now historical) A man with his own fireplace where a pot of water could be boiled, thus qualifying him to vote in a parliamentary election in certain English ...
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POTWALLOPER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
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potwalloper - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
pot•wal•lop•er USA pronunciation n. [Eng. Hist.] World History(in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, ...
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POT-WALLOPER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
(in some English boroughs) a man entitled to the franchise before 1832 by virtue of possession of his own fireplace. Collins English Dictionary.
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pot-walloner, n. meanings, etymology and more
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun pot-walloner. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete.
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pot-walloping
▪ I. pot-ˈwalloping, n. nonce-wd. [f. pot n.1 + walloping: see wallop v.] The boiling of a pot; in quot. the sound produced by the boiler of an engine.1849 De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach §1 Wks. 1862 IV. 303 The trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail..has now given way for ever to the ...
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potwalloper
potwalloper (pɒtˈwɒləpə(r)) Forms: α. 8 pot-walloner, -iner. β. 8– pot(-)walloper, 9 -wallopper, -wolloper. [One of the popular alterations of potwaller (after wallop v. to boil with agitation), which has in general use largely supplanted the original word. It is found first in De Foe's Tour, ed. 17...
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Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Potwalloper
A potwalloper (sometimes or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons
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pot-boiler
ˈpot-ˌboiler 1. One who boils a pot; spec. in Eng. Politics = potwaller. rare.1824 Hitchins & Drew Cornwall I. xvii. §17. 650 The right of election is vested at present in all the inhabitants [of Tregony] who are pot-boilers. 1826 [see potwaller]. 2. colloq. a. Applied depreciatively to a work of li...
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