pot : Idioms & Phrases

• (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof.

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• noun an electric cooker that maintains a relatively low temperature
  

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• noun a mechanical damper; the vibrating part is attached to a piston that moves in a chamber filled with liquid
  

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• noun a coffeepot for making drip coffee
  

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• a vessel in which metals are refined.

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• . (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace.

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• a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for catching crabs, lobsters, etc.

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• a watering pot.

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• verb become ruined
  go to the dogs.
  
  • His business went to pot when economy soured

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• , a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients.

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• noun a stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot
  hotpot.
  

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• (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes, contributions to which are made by each player successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the "pot," which is the sum total of all the bets. see also jackpot

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• noun trap for catching lobsters
  

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• noun an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated
  
• noun a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
  crucible.
  

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• a vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

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Mon"key-pot` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.

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• noun a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings
  pepper pot.
  
• noun a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper
  pepper box; pepper shaker.
  

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• a mucilaginous soup or stew of vegetables and cassareep, much esteemed in the West Indies.

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• noun a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings
  pepper pot.
  

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• noun mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
  farm cheese; farmer's cheese; cottage cheese.
  

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• cottage cheese. See under Cottage.

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• a companion in drinking.

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• noun a plot of ground where marijuana is grown and harvested (often hidden in a national forest)
  

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• a pothook.

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• any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others.

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• 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.

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• noun the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
  liquor; pot likker.
  

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• noun the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
  liquor; pot likker.
  

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• noun the common European annual marigold
  common marigold; Calendula officinalis; ruddles; Scotch marigold.
  

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• noun aromatic Eurasian perennial
  winter sweet; marjoram; wild marjoram; Origanum vulgare; oregano.
  

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• noun cast iron used for making cooking wares
  
• noun an alloy of copper and lead used especially for making large pots
  

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• . (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 . Ure. (c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. Knight.

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• noun a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors)
  

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• (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.

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• noun cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot
  

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• (Hydraul.), a noria.

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• noun traditional French stew of vegetables and beef
  

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Pot"-bel`lied adjective

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1. Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

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Pot"-bel`ly noun

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1. A protuberant belly.

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• adjective satellite (of children) trained to use the toilet
  potty-trained; toilet-trained.
  

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Pot"-val`iant adjective

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1. Having the courage given by drink. Smollett.

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Pot"-wal`lop*er noun

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1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
2. One who cleans pots; a scullion. Slang, U. S.

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• noun a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
  cupel; bone-ash cup.
  

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• to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. Colloq.

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• to keep going on actively, as in certain games. Colloq.

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• (Milling), the step and support for the lower end of the spindle of a millstone.

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• noun a container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle; used to sprinkle water over plants
  watering can.
  

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• . (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, used for watering flowers, paths, etc. (b) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites. The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot.

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White"-pot` noun

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1. A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot. King.

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• a tank or a pit where cloth in the process of dyeing or manufacture is washed, dipped in a mordant, or the like.

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