Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pottage \Pot"tage\ (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See
   {Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.]
   A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both
   together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
   [Written also {potage}.] --Chaucer.

         Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
                                                  --Gen. xxv.
                                                  34.

Source : WordNet®

pottage
     n 1: a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
     2: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: {potage}]