Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
pot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A size of paper. See under
paper .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
pott . - noun An old size of
paper , 12.5 x 15 inches.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the elderly were busy with their bagh chal, in another street of the city - Ganabhal - the youth in their 20's were busy with their game of Ludo, popularly known as 'pott'.
News Abhilasha Subba 2010
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While the elderly were busy with their bagh chal, in another street of the city - Ganabhal - the youth in their 20's were busy with their game of Ludo, popularly known as 'pott'.
News Abhilasha Subba 2010
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Hope You enjoy it When You eventually Vistit the finished wizarding world of harry pott n
World Exclusive: A Sneak Peek At The Rides Of Harry Potter World 2007
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Who can resist words like pott (OED: "originally bearing the watermark of a pot"), columbier ("F. colombier dove-cote, used in same sense"), demy, double elephant?
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Oddly, the OED entry for pott includes a citation from Frederick T.
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And so the pott boils on and on, alas though, time is not on our in this matter.
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By then a patch of the Ikon Yu's pott ribs lay bare and exposed in a great jagged strip, like a patient in mid-operation.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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My mother has had branches of them for a flower-pott, several Christmasses, which I have seen.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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_ Bot so long goys the pott to the water, men says,
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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FINE PAPER EDITION of = The Deemster, = pott 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 2s. net; leather, gilt edges, 3s. net.
Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literature, Sept. 1905
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