Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A boys’ game in which the players roll themselves up and are then pretended to be carried to market by others as honey, the amusement consisting in the difficulty of continuing in the required position.
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Examples
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They're manipulation honey-pots just waiting to be used.
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They're manipulation honey-pots just waiting to be used.
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But the things I remember best about England, were the honey-pots!
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(It would be both inappropriate and superfluous, to go into greater detail about the honey-pots!)
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Cartouche, as usual, was fixed upon; and in the tick of his bed, lo! there were found a couple of empty honey-pots!
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The merchant was touched by his case; and forgetting the nightcaps, the honey-pots, and the rags and dirt of little Louis, took him to his arms, and kissed and hugged him with the tenderest affection.
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Hungry and ragged, he wandered from one place and profession to another, and regretted the honey-pots at Clermont, and the comfortable soup and bouilli at home.
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Some of these planks did young Cartouche remove; and having descended by means of a rope, tied a couple of others to the neck of the honey-pots, climbed back again, and drew up his prey in safety.
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The president of the college put aside his honey-pots in an apartment within his own; to which, except by the one door which led into the room which his reverence usually occupied, there was no outlet.
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There was a table spread with what looked like a splendid luncheon in this great cave, and chairs were set round, but Jack and the boy-king felt no inclination to eat anything, though they were hungry, for a whole nation of ants were creeping up the honey-pots.
Mopsa the Fairy 1910
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