Definition of Pot

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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.

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Pot Quotations

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Emo Philips

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
Paul McCartney

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

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.
Chevy Chase

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

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

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
Drew Carey

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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