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Potman   Listen
noun
Potman  n.  (pl. potmen)  
1.
A pot companion. (Obs.)
2.
A servant in a public house; a potboy.





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"Potman" Quotes from Famous Books



... but farm labour an' the poor rate. I don't know how the farmers about here could make a do of it if we didn't pay rates to keep their labourers from dying off. My boys get fed up. Off they go, 'nd I doan' blame 'em. One of 'em's in a racin' stable now, doin' well. Another's got a potman's job London somewhere. Doin' well. But the kid I've got now, he'll stop. No ginger in that boy. Can't see anything five minutes off, either. Must be under his nose, and your finger shouting at it. He's got a cloudy mind. Yet he's clever, in his way. There's the door-mat of the shop. As soon as ...
— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson
... Pots; Till at length, to close the list, Came an Archaeologist, Came and dug with care and pain, Came and found the Pot again: Dug and delved with spade and shovel, Made a version wholly novel Of the Potman's old design (Others none were genuine). Pots were in a special sense Echt-Historisch Documents: All who Error hope to stem Must begin by studying them; So the Public (which, he said, Had been grievously misled) Must in all things freshly start From his views of Ancient Art. All ...
— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley


Words linked to "Potman" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, employee, UK, potboy, Great Britain, Britain, U.K.


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