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Pot   /pɑt/   Listen
noun
race, pot, match, Consolation game  n.  A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.


Pot  n.  
1.
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.
2.
An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
3.
The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. "Give her a pot and a cake."
4.
A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
5.
A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
6.
A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
7.
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
8.
A size of paper. See Pott.
9.
Marijuana. (slang)
10.
The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) A horse heavily backed; a favorite. (Slang)
11.
(Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; called also pot helmet.
12.
(Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool.
Jack pot. See under 2d Jack.
Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage.
Pot companion, a companion in drinking.
Pot hanger, a pothook.
Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others.
Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market.
Pot metal.
(a)
The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.
(b)
An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
(c)
A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.
Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.
To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. (Colloq.)


verb
Pot  v. t.  (past & past part. potted; pres. part. potting)  
1.
To place or inclose in pots; as:
(a)
To preserve seasoned in pots. "Potted fowl and fish."
(b)
To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(c)
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.
(d)
(Billiards) To pocket.
2.
To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed. "When hunted, it (the jaguar) takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed."
3.
To secure; gain; win; bag. (Colloq.)


Pot  v. i.  
1.
To tipple; to drink. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "It is less labor to plow than to pot it."
2.
To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.





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"Pot" Quotes from Famous Books



... when I reached Charing Cross I found myself on the fringe of another and much larger crowd, and that the people, who seemed to be waiting for somebody and were chatting with a noise like the crackling of thorns under a pot, were saying: ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... spellin' makes patter, nor yet snips and snaps of snide talk. You may cut a moke out o' pitch-pine, mate, and paint it, but can't make it walk. You may chuck a whole Slang Dixionary by chunks in a stodge-pot of chat, But if 'tisn't alive, 'tain't chin-music, but ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 • Various
... the smell of lamp-oil; the low song of the wind through the rigging, that came humming in at the doorway, which was never closed, night or day, unless the seas were washing to and fro on the main deck. He knew everything so well; the very pen and the rarely used ink-pot; the Captain's attitude, and the British care that he took not to speak with his lips that which was ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman
... scarcely like to say it, but they're almost white, my dear Phoebe. Your complexion is sallow, and mine is pink and rosy. Why, with a bottle of hair-dye, such as we see advertised in the papers, and a pot of rouge, you'd be as good-looking as ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... in his nose, cheeks and forehead: an hostess I found there too, a woman of very good carriage; and though she had not so much colour (for what she had done) as her rich husband had, yet all beholders might perceive by the roundness of her belly, that she was able to draw a pot dry at a draught, and ne'er ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick


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