pottle

To look for a needle in a pottle of hay.

The accounts of the city at this period contain entries of payments for sugar loaves given to the Recorder for a New Year’s present, and for pottles of wine bestowed on distinguished visitors.

The evening is wound up with potations, “pottle deep,” of ale and hot elderberry wine, and a loud cheer echoes through the house when the clock strikes twelve.

It will be noted that the ancient measure—a pottle—is here used.

Rare ripe strawberries and Hautboys, sixpence a pottle.