Pot

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  • noun. Any of various usually domestic containers made of pottery, metal, or glass, as.
  • noun. A round, fairly deep cooking vessel with a handle and often a lid.
  • noun. A short round container for storing or serving food.
  • noun. A coffeepot.
  • noun. A teapot.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Such a container and its contents.
  • noun. A potful.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A large drinking cup; a tankard.
  • noun. A drink of liquor contained in such a cup.
  • noun. An artistic or decorative ceramic vessel of any shape.
  • noun. A flowerpot.
  • noun. Something, such as a chimney pot or chamber pot, that resembles a round cooking vessel in appearance or function.
  • noun. A trap for eels, other fish, or crustaceans, typically consisting of a wicker or wire basket or cage.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The total amount staked by all the players in one hand in cards.
  • noun. The area on a card table where stakes are placed.
  • noun. A shot in billiards or related games intended to send a ball into a pocket.
  • noun. A common fund to which members of a group contribute.
  • noun. A large amount.
  • noun. A potshot.
  • noun. A potbelly.
  • noun. A potty or toilet.
  • noun. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To place or plant in a pot.
  • intransitive verb. To preserve (food) in a pot.
  • intransitive verb. To cook in a pot.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot (game) for food rather than for sport.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot with a potshot.
  • intransitive verb. To win or capture; bag.
  • intransitive verb. To hit (a ball) into a pocket.
  • intransitive verb. To take a potshot.
  • intransitive verb. To make or shape objects from clay, as on a potter's wheel.
  • noun. Marijuana.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pit; a hole; especially, a deep hole scooped out by the eddies of a river.
  • noun. A vessel of earth, iron, brass, or other metal, usually of circular section and in shape rather deep than broad, employed for domestic and other purposes.
  • noun. An earthen vessel, often for holding something distinctively specified; a jar or jug: as, a flower-pot; a cream-pot.
  • noun. A drinking-vessel; a vessel containing a specified quantity of liquor, usually a quart or a pint; a mug.
  • noun. The contents of a pot; that which is cooked in a pot; specifically, the quantity contained in a drinking-pot, generally a quart (in Guernsey and Jersey, about 2 quarts). A pot of butter was by statutes of Charles II. made 14 pounds.
  • noun. Stoneware: a trade-term.
  • noun. In sugar manufacturing, an earthen mold used in refining; also, a perforated cask in which sugar is placed for drainage of the molasses.
  • noun. In founding, a crucible.
  • noun. In glass manufacturing, the crucible in which the frit is melted. Those used for glass of fine quality, such as flint-glass, are closed to guard against impurities.
  • noun. The metal or earthenware top of a chimney; a chimney-pot.
  • noun. A size of writing-paper whose original water-mark is said to have been a pot. The smallest sheets measure 15½ x 12½ inches. Also spelled pott.
  • noun. In fishing: The circular inclosed part of a pound-net, otherwise called the bowl, pound, or crib.
  • noun. A hollow vessel for trapping fish; a lobster-pot.
  • noun. In card-playing: The aggregate stakes, generally placed together in the center of the table; the pool.
  • noun. In faro, the name given to the six-, seven-, and eight-spots in the lay-out.
  • Word Usage
    "Put the potatoes, carrot and rice into another pot* with the rest of the chicken stock, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes, then put the contents of this pot into the pot with the cucumber and simmer for 5 more minutes."
    Form
    pothead  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    belly  bet  cannabis  containerful  ganja  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bhatt  Dot  Kott  Lot  Lotte  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barrel  basket  bottle  bowl  box  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    DET  DMT  Dutch oven  LSD  Mary Jane  
    variant
    pot helmet  pott  potted  potting  
    verb-form
    pots  potted  potting