pott
- 1A former standard size of paper, measuring 12.5 by 15 inches.
Stationers once sold pott by the ream for everyday correspondence.
The clerk ruled lines across a sheet of pott before writing up the ledger.
Note
A size name that behaves as a mass noun: you buy a ream of pott or rule a sheet of pott. It often appears in front of another noun, as in pott paper. Where the name comes from is unknown. One suggestion is that the sheets first carried a watermark of a pot. Another is that it preserves the name of a manufacturer or merchant.
- 2Obsolete form of pot.
Note
An old spelling, not a different word. Wherever it turns up in older writing, read it as pot in any of its senses: the cooking vessel, the honeypot, the teapot, the flowerpot, the crucible. In modern writing use pot. The same spelling belongs to the old paper size, which is a separate word with its own history.
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Origin
The origin is unknown. It possibly comes from the paper originally bearing a watermark of a pot, or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.