pottlepotEtymologyFrom pottle + pot.nounA pot or vessel containing two quarts (four pints), especially one used to hold alcohol.“... and help her with the yeast , and filling the pottlepots of ale out of the tubs.”An alcoholic, a drunkard.“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].”