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Definition of Pot

Pot Alt. of race To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed. To secure; gain; win; bag. To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; a horse heavily backed; a favorite. A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet. The total of the bets at one time; the pool. 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. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc. A perforated cask for draining sugar. A size of paper. See Pott. To place or inclose in pots To preserve seasoned in pots. To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs. 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. To pocket. To tipple; to drink. Related Definitions: Above, Ale, Also, Alt, An, And, Any, Appropriated, As, At, Backed, Bag, Bean, Boiling, By, Called, Card, Cask, Catching, Chimney, Contained, Cooking, Cooler, Cover, Crucible, Cup, Defensive, Drain, Draining, Drink, Earthen, Earthenware, Enemy, Extension, Favorite, Fish, Flower, Flue, For, From, Gain, Game, Graphite, Great, Having, Headpiece, Heavily, Helmet, Hit, Holding, Horse, In, Inclose, Is, It, Jocose, Later, Meat, Melting, Metal, Metallic, Molasses, Mug, Needed, No, Of, Off, One, Or, Out, Paper, Perforated, Perhaps, Pewter, Place, Placing, Plain, Playing, Pocket, Pool, Pot, Pott, Potted, Preserve, Quantity, Quart, Race, Racing, Seasoned, Secure, See, Sense, Set, Shoot, Shot, Shots, Size, Skill, Special, Stake, Sugar, Take, Taking, The, Through, Time, Tipple, To, Top, Total, Variety, Vessel, When, Which, Wicker, Win

Pot Quotations Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. Anthony Kiedis Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. Germaine Greer As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more. John Zorn The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. Thomas Huxley

Pot Translations pot in Afrikaans is pot pot in Danish is kande pot in Dutch is po pot in Finnish is ruukku pot in French is pot pot in German is Topf, Kochtopf pot in Italian is vaso pot in Latin is scaphium (sciphus pot in Norwegian is gryte, potte pot in Spanish is orinal, cantaro, jarro, olla pot in Swedish is kanna, gryta, kruka, burk

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