Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pottleful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pot-tle-ful
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The amount that a pottle will hold.

Example Sentences

"Fil a pottleful of clean red wine and put therein the powder of Cinamon,Cloves,Ginger,Parietary, Nutmegs, Gallingale,Spikenard, Muct, Quinbilois, Grains, Sage, Mints, Rue, Calamint, Long-pepper,..."
"He darted to the corn bin, got a great pottleful of oats, and shot into her stall."
"Your Christian Scientist, though inspired by an absolutely sane faith that trust in the divine life which all men share will effect unsuspected wonders of healing without the help of drugs, brings himself and his system into ridicule when he refuses a dose of castor oil to a child with a pottleful of rotten strawberries in his little belly."

Etymology

From pottle + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pottle

Inflected Forms

pottlefuls (plural) pottlesful (plural)

Questions

What does pottleful mean?: The amount that a pottle will hold.
Where does pottleful come from?: From pottle + -ful.

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