Pottle

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A liquid measure of four pints.

2. A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott.

3. A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.