English Explanatory Dictionary

potwaller

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A man with his own fireplace where a pot of water could be boiled, thus qualifying him to vote in a parliamentary election in certain English boroughs before the 1832 Reform Act.

Word forms

potwaller potwallers

Etymology

From pot + wall (“to boil”) + -er.

Related words

potwalling pot-walloner pot-walloper
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