Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pot or vessel for holding paste.
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Examples
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Who is up next the Vulture and paste-pot pete. brian says:
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He saw Mort apply glue to the back of the clipping with the brush attached to the cover of his paste-pot.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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As for the "_odds and ends_" -- extracts from other papers, jokes, and various other scraps tucked in here and there -- a man with shears and paste-pot has a good deal to do with the making of them.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous
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One can see the author working again and again for the romantic moment, and scenes that should have convinced and wrung the reader's heart (always eager to be wrung) have in their appearance some suspicion of the paint and paste-pot of the cheaper drama.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various
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Graves reached past the paste-pot to capture a fugitive match.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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Contemplation of those gorgeous tricoloured posters had turned his brain, and, armed with an amateur paste-pot and a ladder, he had sallied forth at midnight to stick them about the silent streets, so as to cut down the publishing expenses.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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In the paste-pot profession, all "notices" scorning.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 Various
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And as he sang, the prophetic words rose upon the air, and were wafted, together with an odor of new leather and paste-pot, out of the window, and fell upon the ear of a ragged urchin with an armful of hand-bills.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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This he bent over so as to make it into something resembling the cover of a book, then cut a lining of white unruled foolscap for this improvised cover, and taking out his paste-pot, fitted it neatly to the inside.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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When my tale was ended he let me cry all over his desk, with my head buried in a heap of galley-proofs and my tears watering his paste-pot.
Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926
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