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Entry 17 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Pot

/pät/ · IPA /pɑt/
01 n. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for p…
  1. 1.
    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.
  2. 2.
    An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
  3. 3.
    The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
  4. 4.
    A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
  5. 5.
    A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
  6. 6.
    A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
  7. 7.
    A perforated cask for draining sugar.
  8. 8.
    A size of paper. See Pott. See: Pott
  9. 9.
    marijuana.[slang]
  10. 10.
    The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool;(Racing, Eng.) [Slang]
  11. 11.
    A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.(Armor) Also: pot helmet
  12. 12.
    The total of the bets at one time; the pool.(Card Playing)
Phrases & compounds
Jack pot — See under 2d Jack.
Pot cheese — cottage cheese. See under Cottage.
Pot companion — a companion in drinking.
Pot hanger — a pothook.
Pot herb — any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others.
Pot hunter — one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market.
Pot metal — The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron
Pot plant — either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.
Pot wheel — a noria.
To go to pot — to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse.
02 v. t. To place or inclose in pots
imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n. Potting
  1. 1.
    To place or inclose in pots(Billiards)
  2. 2.
    To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
    “When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.” — Encyc. of Sport.
  3. 3.
    To secure; gain; win; bag.[Colloq.]
03 v. i. To tipple; to drink.
  1. 1.
    To tipple; to drink.[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    “It is less labor to plow than to pot it.” — Feltham.
  2. 2.
    To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.