Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beer-mug; hence, a toper.
- noun The name given in English to a variety of crockery made in Denmark.
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Examples
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I shall have to make black-pot and sausages, and hawk 'em about the street, all to support an invalid husband I'd no business to be saddled with at all.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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I shall have to make black-pot and sausages, and hawk 'em about the street, all to support an invalid husband I'd no business to be saddled with at all.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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'Tell 'em at hwome that I should like for supper, -- well, lamb's fry if they can get it; and if they can't, black-pot; and if they can't get that, well, chitterlings will do. '
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Also thirty rings of black-pot, a dozen of white-pot, and ten knots of tender and well-washed chitterlings, cooked plain in case she should like a change.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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"Tell 'em at hwome that I should like for supper, -- well, lamb's fry if they can get it; and if they can't, black-pot; and if they can't get that, well chitterlings will do."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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Instead of neat white edges, there was the black-pot scouring residue.
my treasure 2009
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