Bottle vs Pottle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bottle and pottle

is that bottle is a dwelling; habitation while pottle is a former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size.

As a verb bottle

is to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

bottle
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) bottle, botle, buttle, from (etyl) botl, .
Noun
(en noun)
A dwelling; habitation.

A building; house.

Etymology 2
(etyl) and (etyl) boteille (Modern French bouteille), from buttis.
Alternative forms
* botl (Jamaican English)
Noun
(en noun)
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

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The contents of such a container.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

(British, informal) Nerve, courage.

(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.

(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

* End of the 14th century , (The Canterbury Tales), by (Geoffrey Chaucer),

Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.

* 1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),

DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.

BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.

* 1590s , , by (Christopher Marlowe)

I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.

(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

Synonyms
* (for feeding babies) baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US) * (courage) balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluck
Antonyms
* (courage) cowardice
Derived terms
* bottle bank * bottle blonde * bottlebrush * bottleneck * bottlenose * bottle opener, bottle-opener * bottle out * bottle sling * bottletop * bottle-washer * hit the bottle * Klein bottle * lightning in a bottle
Descendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),
See also
* flagon * flask * jar
Verb
(bottl)
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

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(British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.

Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

(British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

The rider bottled the big jump.

(British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.

He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

(British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.

Derived terms
* bottle up
pottle
English

Noun
(en noun)
(archaic) A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size.

* Sir Walter Scott:

a dry pottle of sack before him

* Thomas Dekker:

a pottle of Greek wine

(New Zealand) A conical receptacle, typically for potato chips or other foodstuffs.

A pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.

* Charles Dickens

He had a pottle of strawberries in one hand.

* 2005 , English Folktales (ISBN 1591582601), page 21:

"I was wondering whether you've got such a thing as a pottle of brains to spare?"

Synonyms
* (a receptacle for strawberries) punnet (British, New Zealand)