Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In billiards, the act of holing a ball.
- noun In horticulture, the transfer of plants from beds or benches to flower-pots, or from one pot to another.
- noun The operation of putting up cooked and seasoned meats in pots, where they are preserved by the action of the salt, spices, etc., with which they are prepared, and by the exclusion of air.
- noun In sugar manufacturing, the act or operation of transferring raw sugar from the crystallizing-pans to perforated casks.
- noun In sulphuric-acid manuf., the placing of pots containing either potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate and sulphuric acid in the kilns used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid from sulphurous acid obtained from the combustion of sulphur in air.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Tippling.
- noun The act of placing in a pot
- noun West Indies The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining.
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- verb Present participle of
pot .
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Examples
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A fire safety blog produced by the Montgomery County fire department includes this warning: Do not use old planter pots that contain potting soil as an ashtray ...
Cigarette started fire that burned five Manassas homes, officials say Martin Weil 2010
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A fire safety blog produced by the Montgomery County fire department includes this warning: Do not use old planter pots that contain potting soil as an ashtray ...
Cigarette started fire that burned five Manassas homes, officials say Martin Weil 2010
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A common ingredient in potting mixes is perlite, which makes the soils airier while also retaining moisture.
Inflation Gets Right Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty « Isegoria 2008
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The soil is next consolidated by shaking the pot, and then lifting it up and setting it down again with a jerk; and is rendered firm and neat round the rim by means of a broad smooth piece of stick shaped somewhat like a table-knife, and called a potting-stick.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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As instrtumentation creator for a major U S marine industry I was plagued by multiple EFI and Rfi interference to electronic systems as well as harness talk between circuits, as well as "potting" breakdown of modules and then there are "software" problems.
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Then the piece had been taken down from the hill and around to the left of the line, where Lieut. Miley's duty as aide had carried him, to observe the progress of the battle, and Weigle had been again denied the privilege of "potting" a Spaniard.
History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker
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When I suggested that the sight of three women of our age -- we are all well on toward fifty; Aggie insists that she is younger than I am, but we were in the same infant class in Sunday-school -- three women of our age "potting" at fences was hardly dignified, Tish merely shrugged her shoulders.
More Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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-- At daylight this morning, Alexander Jardine succeeded in "potting" the calf that had eluded them yesterday, which gave the party a satisfactory meal.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The skirmishers of both armies are continually "potting" at each other from behind the rocks, though without much damage.
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FYI you want some kind of potting mix -- NOT topsoil.
Ask MetaFilter johnnybeggs 2010
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