Pottle vs Pittle - What's the difference?
pottle | pittle |
(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:
* Thomas Dekker:
(New Zealand) A conical receptacle, typically for potato chips or other foodstuffs.
A pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.
* Charles Dickens
* 2005 , English Folktales (ISBN 1591582601), page 21:
As nouns the difference between pottle and pittle
is that pottle is (archaic) a former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot of around this size while pittle is (northumbria) urine.As a verb pittle is
(northumbria) to urinate.pottle
English
Noun
(en noun)- a dry pottle of sack before him
- a pottle of Greek wine
- He had a pottle of strawberries in one hand.
- "I was wondering whether you've got such a thing as a pottle of brains to spare?"