pottage

«pottage» in Mova's school dictionary: A thick soup or stew of vegetables, grain, meat or fish… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pottages) (old use)

meaning for a pupil

A thick soup or stew of vegetables, grain, meat or fish, cooked in a pot. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, the thick food a cook or a magic mill makes for a feast.

examples

• He gobbled up all the pottage. tree →
• Grind herrings and milk pottage, said the master. tree →
• The cook stirred the pottage all afternoon. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

In the corpora

• And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pottage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.