Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pot in which soup-stock is prepared and kept ready for use.
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Examples
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By the time everyone else was awake, Dad had brewed up a stock-pot full of coffee on the grill.
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The classicist is long gone, despite my obedient kitchen servitude and the stock-pot I bought her for Valentine's Day (which she took with her).
The Finer Things 2009
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I laughed as I watched them shrink from a pile of leaves spilling out of the top of my largest stock-pot to about three inches of greens.
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I laughed as I watched them shrink from a pile of leaves spilling out of the top of my largest stock-pot to about three inches of greens.
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He had had a wonderful meal, too, it was the remains of Mrs Penruthlan's big stock-pot, and was very tasty indeed.
Five Go Down To The Sea Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953
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_Helping Hands_, and, as for all the rest of the characters, well, they can be found in the common stock-pot of the melodramatic authors of the last half-century, for, like SHAKSPEARE himself, these wicked lawyers and gamblers -- the aiders and a-betters -- are "not for an age"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 Various
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Indeed, the 'Vetpot' plays as great a part in a poor man's house as the 'stock-pot' does in an
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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Yes, family life is very often calm and commonplace, the stock-pot that figures on its escutcheon has not been put there without reason, I admit.
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Those contain higher fragrant properties; so by putting the remains of roast meats in the stock-pot you obtain a better flavor.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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When neatly cut off they leave the saddle in a better shape, and the ribs can be put into your stock-pot to boil for soup.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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