"pottlepot" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1848, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, page 122:",
          "text": "... and help her with the yeast , and filling the pottlepots of ale out of the tubs.",
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          "ref": "1876, William Chaffers, Marks and Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods, page 62:",
          "text": "The largest, or “galonier,” twelve inches high, contains eight pints; the next or “Pottlepot,” about nine inches and a half high, holds four pints; another, eight inches and a half high, a quart; and the smallest, six inches in height, one pint.",
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          "ref": "1877, A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Hamlet. 1877, page 78:",
          "text": "Barnaby Rich is exceedingly angry with the inventor of the custom, which, however, with a laudable zeal for the honour of his country, he attributes to an Englishman, who, it seems, \"had his brains beat out with a pottlepot\" for his ingenuity […]",
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          "ref": "1905, Mary Catherine Rowsell, The Life-story of Charlotte de la Trémoille: Countess of Derby, page 66:",
          "text": "[…] notably — for a vacuum, and that in a few years the lack of all rational diversions, the pulling down of maypoles, the silencing of all music but psalm-singing, would drive man and woman to try and drown care in the pottlepot.",
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          "ref": "2020(?), George Payne Rainsford James, Mary of Burgundy: The Revolt of Ghent, Library of Alexandria",
          "text": "Maillotin du Bac seemed determined that, as far as the quality of his favours went, no jealousy should exist between the trencher and the pottlepot."
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        "A pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol."
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          "text": "It is true that he departed in quest of some Carpenter's Tools, which he declare would do the job quite as well; but, again to my good luck, the carpenter was as Rare a pottlepot as he, and they two took to boiling rum in a calabash and [drinking].",
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          "ref": "1894, Austin Dobson, At the Sign of the Lyre, page 210:",
          "text": "\"Thou art no man (she saith) —thou art a Pottlepot!\" \"No man,\" I saith. \"No man!\" she saith. And \"Pottlepot\" thereto! \"Thou sleepest like our dog all day; thou drink'st as fishes do.\"",
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          "ref": "1901, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot: Being The Sequel to The Monastery, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] wains—I trust it is only the medicine of the pottlepot, (being the only medicamentum which the beast useth,) which hath caused him to tarry on the road.",
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        "An alcoholic, a drunkard."
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          "text": "Barnaby Rich is exceedingly angry with the inventor of the custom, which, however, with a laudable zeal for the honour of his country, he attributes to an Englishman, who, it seems, \"had his brains beat out with a pottlepot\" for his ingenuity […]",
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          "text": "[…] notably — for a vacuum, and that in a few years the lack of all rational diversions, the pulling down of maypoles, the silencing of all music but psalm-singing, would drive man and woman to try and drown care in the pottlepot.",
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          "text": "\"Thou art no man (she saith) —thou art a Pottlepot!\" \"No man,\" I saith. \"No man!\" she saith. And \"Pottlepot\" thereto! \"Thou sleepest like our dog all day; thou drink'st as fishes do.\"",
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          "text": "[…] wains—I trust it is only the medicine of the pottlepot, (being the only medicamentum which the beast useth,) which hath caused him to tarry on the road.",
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