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Washpot   Listen
noun
Washpot  n.  
1.
A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
2.
(Tin-Plate Manuf.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.






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"Washpot" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed Mr. Garvin into the first-class compartment, and it soon appeared that Messrs Garvin & Quorrall did, in fact, own the train, and that the London and North Western Railway was no more than their washpot. ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett

... little to work, used to have to stay at de 'Street'. Dey'd have some old folks to look after us—some old man, or some old woman. Dey'd clean off a place on de ground near de washpot where dey cooked de peas, clean it off real clean, den pile de peas out dere on de ground for us to eat. We'd pick um up in our hands and begin to eat. Sometimes dey'd cook hoe cakes in a fire of coals. Dey'd mix a little water with de meal and make a stiff dough that could ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration



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