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Pot
·vt To place or inclose in pots.
II. Pot ·vt To preserve seasoned in pots.
III. Pot ·vt To <<Pocke...
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pot
1) The pot calls the kettle black a-se; one rogue exclaims against another.
2) On the pot; i.e. at ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Pot
The term "pot" is applicable to so many sorts of vessels that it can scarcely be restricted to any o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Shot
·pl of Shot.
II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot.
III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun.
IV. Sh...
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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Consolation pot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Consolation race.
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Hot pot
·add. ·- ·see Semi-diesel, below.
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Monkey-pot
·noun The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for thei...
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Pot lace
·add. ·- Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flow...
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Pot lead
·add. ·- Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
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Pot-bellied
·adj Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.
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Pot-belly
·noun A protuberant belly.
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Pot-sure
·adj Made confident by drink.
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Pot-valiant
·adj Having the courage given by drink.
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Pot-walloper
·noun One who cleans pots; a scullion.
II. Pot-walloper ·noun A voter in certain boroughs of Englan...
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White-pot
·noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, ·etc., baked in a pot.
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Fining pot
A crucible, melting-pot (Prov. 17:3; 27:21).
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Seething pot
A vessel for boiling provisions in (Job 41:20; Jer. 1:13).
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Pewter Pot
A messuage called the "Puter Pott" in parish of St. Mildred, 1529 (Lond. I. p.m. III. 323).
No late...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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hot pot
Ale and brandy made hot.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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idea pot
The knowledge box, the head.
See knowledge box.
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pot converts
Proselytes to the Romish church, made by the distribution of victuals and money.
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pot hunter
One who hunts more tor the sake of the prey than the sport. Pot valiant; courageous from drink. Potw...
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pot-wabblers
Persons entitled to vote for members of parliament in certain boroughs, from having boiled their pot...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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glue-pot
n.
part of a road so bad that thecoach or buggy sticks in it.
1892. `Daily News,' London (exact da...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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quart-pot
n.
a tin vessel originally importedas a measure, and containing an exact imperial quart. It had nol...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pot-pie
A pie made by spreading the crust over the bottom and sides of a pot, and filling up the inside with...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flaun-pot
a custard-pot. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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kale-pot
pottage-pot. N.
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pot-cleps
pot-hooks. N. Because they clip or catch hold of the pot.
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pot-sitten
burnt to. N.
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java pot
A kind of sponge of the species Alcyonium.
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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
II. Snap shot ·add. ·- A quick offhand shot, made w...
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction toTottlep...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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eye-shot
Within sight.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
There are also, of recent introductio...
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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quarter-shot
See water-shot
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
When a ship is moored, neither across the tide, nor right up and down, but quar...
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Pot-au-feu
·add. ·noun A dish of broth, meat, and vegetables prepared by boiling in a pot, — a dish ·esp. commo...
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Lily Pot Lane
West out of Staining Lane to No. 7 Noble Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward.
First mention...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Pewter Pot Inn
On the south side of Leadenhall Street. In Aldgate Ward, in parish. of St. Andrew Undershaft (36 Eli...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Porridge Pot Alley
See Westmoreland Buildings.
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Pottage Pot Alley
The eastern end of what is now Westmoreland Buildings (q.v.) was so called in Rocque, 1746.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cream-pot love
Such as young fellows pretend to dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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piss pot hall
A house at Clapton, near Hackney, built by a potter chiefly out of the profits of chamber pots, in t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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quart-pot tea
n.
Explained in quotations.Cf. billy-tea.
1878. Mrs. H. Jones, `Long Years in Australia,' p. 87:
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go to pot
To be destroyed, wasted, or ruined.--Johnson. Webster. Though much used, it is considered a low phra...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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keel the pot
skim the pot. North. See Love's Labour's Lost.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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gutting a quart pot
Taking out the lining of it: i. e. drinking it off. Gutting an oyster; eating it. Gutting a house; c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
See dispart of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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keep the pot a boiling
i. e. Don't let the game flag. A common expression among young people, when they are anxious to carr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.