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▸ noun: Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
▸ noun: A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
▸ noun: A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
▸ noun: A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
▸ noun: (archaic except in fixed expressions) A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
▸ noun: A crucible: a melting pot.
▸ noun: (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
▸ noun: A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
▸ noun: A perforated cask for draining sugar.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
▸ noun: (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
▸ noun: (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
▸ noun: A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
▸ noun: (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
▸ noun: (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
▸ noun: (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
▸ noun: (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
▸ noun: An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
▸ noun: (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
▸ noun: (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
▸ verb: To put (something) into a pot.
▸ verb: To preserve by bottling or canning.
▸ verb: (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
▸ verb: (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
▸ verb: (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
▸ verb: (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
▸ verb: (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
▸ verb: (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
▸ verb: (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
▸ verb: (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
▸ verb: To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
▸ verb: (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
▸ noun: (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
▸ verb: (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
▸ noun: (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch. [A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch.]
▸ noun: (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot. [A shot taken at an easy or random target.]
▸ noun: (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches. [An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.]
▸ noun: (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion. [A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.]
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