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▪ I. pottinger1 Now dial.|ˈpɒtɪndʒə(r)|
Forms: α. 5 poteger, pottyger, 6 potteger, pattecher, 6 potager, 7 pottager. β. 5–6 potinger, 6 potenger, -ynger, pot(t)anger, pottencher, 6–7 -enger, 7 -inger.
[orig. potager, a. F. potager, f. potage pottage; altered to pot(t)enger, -inger (cf. passager, passenger, harbinger, etc.); thence through podenger, poddinger, to poreger, porringer, q.v.]
A vessel of metal, earthenware, or wood, for holding soup, broth, or other liquid or semi-liquid food; a small basin, porringer.
α [1415Hen. V Mandate in Drake Eboracum (1736) App. 17, 24 disces d'argent aunciens, només potageers de diverses formes.] 1466–7Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 135, j poteger'. c1500in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 377, iiij pottygers. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 617/1 One sponeful of good workes should no more kil y⊇ soule, then a potager of good wurts shuld kil & destroi y⊇ bodi. 1565in Trans. Cumb. & West. Arch. Soc. X. 31, iiij pottegers & xij platts. 1615E. S. Britain's Buss B j b, Wodden pottagers.
β1494in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 321, iiij platers iiij potingers and iiij sawcers. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 7 §7 Untrue..Workmanship of Tin or Pewter..in..Dishes, Saucers, Pottingers, Trenchers, Basons, Flaggons. 1530Palsgr. 257/1 Pottanger, escuelle, avrillon. 1563Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 210, xij pattechers vjs, xij saucers ijs vijd, xviij old dublers in the kitchin & v pottenchers. 1570Levins Manip. 80/14 A Potanger, patella, æ. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 34 In a Glasse or Stone Pottinger. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 483 A Pottenger is..a small, but patulous vessel. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iv. 126 A Physician ordered five Pottingers of Bloud to be taken from him. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pottinger, a coarse earthen-ware pot, with a handle; porringer. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pottinger, a small pewter mug or vessel, containing about three quarters of a pint: a porringer.
▪ II. † pottinger2 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈpɒtɪndʒə(r)|
[Corrupted from potager: as to the form cf. prec.]
A maker of pottage; a kind of cook. App. sometimes confounded with pottingar, apothecary.
[a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 263 Whitther it was by ane Italiane posset, or by French fegges, or by the potage of thare potingar, (he was a French man,) thare departed fra this lyef the Erle of Cassilles, the Erle of Rothose. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 337 Cuning baxteris and also excellent cuikis and potigeris [mispr. potiseris; MS. I, potingareis] witht confectiounis and drogis ffor thair desairtis. ]1814Scott Wav. xxiv (quoting Pitscottie), Excellent cooks, and pottingars. 1820― Monast. xvi, The wafers, flams, and pastry-meat will scarce have had the just degree of fire which learned pottingers prescribe as fittest for the body. 1866Illustr. Lond. News 22 Dec. 607/2 It shows that these herbs were used for seasoning by the pottingers of the period. |