pottle /ˈpɒtəl/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •(New-Zealand) A small food container, usually made of plastic or cardboard, typically used for containing hot chips, yoghurt or other foodstuffs.Outside, I ripped open the bag to reveal the chips were sitting inside a paper pottle. A pottle! — 2019 •(no longer used) A small pot or other receptacle, e.g. for strawberries.Strawberry pottles are often half cabbage leaves, a few tempting strawberries being displayed on the top of the pottle. — 1851 •(no longer used) A former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filled. — 1603 verb1 •To place in a pottle. formspottled · pottling · pottles
