pottleful

English

Etymology

pottle +‎ -ful

Noun

pottleful (plural pottlefuls or pottlesful)

1. The amount that a pottle will hold.
   • 1653, Countess of Kent, A Choice Manual Of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery, page 119:

     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,...

   • 1879, George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie:

     He darted to the corn bin, got a great pottleful of oats, and shot into her stall.

   • 1907, The Bookman - Volume 33, page 177:

     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.