water-pot

He put down the bucket of ice, and gradually filled up the water-pot which was on the fire.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

The water-pot had been filled the evening before, and he had only to push it to one side to make room for the kettle, and this did not take long to boil with the heat he had set going.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

The next day he bought colors, and canvases of various dimensions; he piled up bread and cheese on his table, he filled a water-pot with water, he laid in a provision of wood for his stove; then, to use a studio expression, he dug at his pictures.

Pierre Grassou 2007

The next day he bought colors, and canvases of various dimensions; he piled up bread and cheese on his table, he filled a water-pot with water, he laid in a provision of wood for his stove; then, to use a studio expression, he dug at his pictures.

Pierre Grassou 2007

‘Do you want to see anybody here, sir?’ said Henry, with a defiant eye and a hostile tone, which plainly said that at any rate no one there wanted to see the person so addressed; and as he spoke he brandished aloft his garden water-pot, holding it by the spout, ready for the braining of anyone.

The Warden 2004

Moreouer in the same countrey euery man hath a bundle of great boughs standing in a water-pot before his doore, which bundle is as great as a pillar, and it will not wither, so long as water is applied thereunto: with many other nouelties and strange things, the relation whereof would breed great delight.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Somewhere about the end of the third week in January 1857, a khalasi, that is to say a labourer, accosted a high Brahmin sepoy and asked for a drink of water from his lotah water-pot.

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

She wandered in this manner through the whole village till she had drunk every water-pot dry.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

We travelled one day till the night set in during which we slept near a fort and the graceless thief, taking up the water-pot of a companion, pretending to go for an ablution, departed for plunder.

The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

The most conspicuous article of this description is the abrík, or water-pot, with which the Muselman performs his ablutions.

Travels in Arabia 2003