Home › Words › P › pottlefulpottlefulpottleful means the amount that a pottle will hold.EtymologyFrom pottle + -ful.nounThe amount that a pottle will hold.e.g.“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,...” — 1653, Countess of Kent, A Choice Manual Of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery, page 119:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).