“pottle、pot”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pottle-pot

释义

pottle-pot|ˈpɒt(ə)lpɒt|
[f. pottle + pot n.¹]
A two-quart pot or tankard.
1413in E.E. Wills (1882) 22, Y be-quethe tho [to] William my sone, a new bras pot..an a potel pot of peuwter.1553T. 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].1597Shakes. 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?1841James Brigand viii, Truth and my brains lie together at the bottom of the second pottle-pot.
b. transf. A heavy drinker, a drunkard.
1860Sala 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.

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