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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottage/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottage/#x1)
- Grind herrings and milk pottage, said the master. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottage/#x2)
- The cook stirred the pottage all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottage/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.726/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pottage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pottage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.