Pot

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To place or inclose in pots.

II. Pot ·vt To preserve seasoned in pots.

III. Pot ·vt To Pocket.

IV. Pot ·noun A perforated cask for draining sugar.

V. Pot ·noun An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

VI. Pot ·noun A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, ·etc.

VII. Pot ·noun A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

VIII. Pot ·noun A size of paper. ·see Pott.

IX. Pot ·add. ·noun a horse heavily backed; a favorite.

X. Pot ·vt To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

XI. Pot ·noun The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

XII. Pot ·add. ·noun The total of the bets at one time; the pool.

XIII. Pot ·add. ·vt To Secure; gain; win; bag.

XIV. Pot ·vi To Tipple; to Drink.

XV. Pot ·noun A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

XVI. Pot ·add. ·vi To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an Enemy.

XVII. Pot ·add. ·noun The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool;.

XVIII. Pot ·add. ·noun A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet;

— called also pot helmet.

XIX. Pot ·add. ·vt To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.

XX. Pot ·vt To Drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, ·etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.

XXI. Pot ·noun A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, ·etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

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