Pot-wabblers (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Pot-wabblers

Persons entitled to vote for members of parliament in certain boroughs, from having boiled their pots therein. These boroughs are called pot-wabbling boroughs.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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