pothouse meaning
Examples
- Pothouse Bridge carries Salop Road over the canal, and then another basin served the Regent Iron Works.
- In 1809 a comedy called " Lantara, or the Painter in the Pothouse ", was brought out at the Vaudeville with great success.
- Thomas Macaulay in his " History of England " ( 1849 ), describes Lodowicke Muggleton as " a mad tailor who wandered from pothouse to pothouse, tippling ale and denouncing eternal torments against all who refused to believe . " Subsequent historians have treated this as slanderous ( as it may be for the subsequent history of the faith ) but it is not so different from Muggleton's own description of his early, lively adventures as a prophet . " For God's sake, Lodowick, let us be gone, else we shall be killed : so he paid for the drink and we departed out of the house and went to another a little distance off ."
- Thomas Macaulay in his " History of England " ( 1849 ), describes Lodowicke Muggleton as " a mad tailor who wandered from pothouse to pothouse, tippling ale and denouncing eternal torments against all who refused to believe . " Subsequent historians have treated this as slanderous ( as it may be for the subsequent history of the faith ) but it is not so different from Muggleton's own description of his early, lively adventures as a prophet . " For God's sake, Lodowick, let us be gone, else we shall be killed : so he paid for the drink and we departed out of the house and went to another a little distance off ."