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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



... sage's wrath, aglow At loss of one sole cow, should make you shudder, Appease his anger; for you can bestow Cows by the million, each with pot-like udder. ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
... his bald head, his diminutive stature, his ample pot-belly, and ampler nose, was a man of fine feelings. Nature was outraged when he became a barber. He most assuredly was never destined by her to shave beards, and manufacture perukes for heads more brainless, many of them, than his own blocks. He ought to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 565 - Vol. 20, No. 565., Saturday, September 8, 1832 • Various
... dell' acqua bollente, and I make the coffee in the little copper coffee-pot we bought in Paris, while Salemina heats the milk over the alcohol-lamp, which is the most precious treasure in ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... would hurt her as it might some girls to 'board round' in the village houses, a week at a time, as she would have to do, and leave her evenings free to spend with the idle young folks of the place. It, maybe, wouldn't spoil that pretty pot of violets to have the street dust blow on them for an hour or two, but you wouldn't care about having them set out to catch it. And Katie Fleming is better at home making butter for her grandmother than she would be anywhere ...
— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson
... in my bed, mother,—my head is throbbing sore; And, mother, prithee, let the sheets be duly aired before; And, if you'd do a kindness to your poor desponding child, Draw me a pot of beer, mother—and, mother, ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun


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