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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



... by the excitement of the day, Kitwater anathematized the servants for not having been there to prepare the evening meal, but while he and Hayle wrangled, Mr. Codd had as usual taken the matter into his own hands, and, picking up a cooking-pot, had set off in the direction of the stream, whence they drew their supply of water. He had not proceeded very far, however, before he uttered a cry and came running back to the camp. There was a scared expression upon his face as he ...
— My Strangest Case • Guy Boothby
... which in sorwe and strif 650 Ayein his ese was contraire. Bot he spak evere softe and faire, Til it befell, as it is told, In wynter, whan the dai is cold, This wif was fro the welle come, Wher that a pot with water nome Sche hath, and broghte it into house, And sih how that hire seli spouse Was sett and loked on a bok Nyh to the fyr, as he which tok 660 His ese for a man of age. And sche began the wode rage, And axeth him what devel he thoghte, And bar on hond that him ...
— Confessio Amantis - Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. • John Gower
... to peer through the railings, and is shifting a long, thin black revolver from his left hand to his right. The faithful sunlight that puts everything into place, gives his whiskers and the hair on the back of his tanned wrist just the colour of the copper pot, the bear's fur and the trampled pines. For the rest, there is the blue sea beyond ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... fire made in the middle of the house, which is the largest in the town, and is very often the dwelling of their king or war captain; where sit two men on the ground upon a mat; one with a rattle, made of a gourd, with some beans in it; the other with a drum made of an earthen pot, covered with a dressed deer skin, and one stick in his hand to beat thereon; and so they both begin the song appointed. At the same time one drums and the other rattles, which is all the artificial music of their own making I ever saw amongst them. To these two ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly
... been sent to every junk-dealer, in hopes of finding the Monterey cannon before it has been put into the melting-pot. ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 31, June 10, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various


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