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washpot

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A vessel prepared for the washing of anything.
  • noun In tin-plate manuf., a pot kept filled with clean bright melted tin, in which each sheet of iron, after it has left the tin-pot and had the superfluous metal removed from it with a hempen brush, receives its final coating of tin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
  • noun (Tin-Plate Manuf.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pot which holds water for washing.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

wash + pot

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Examples

  • Moab was a desert kingdom vanquished by the Israelites, and for 'washpot' read 'toilet paper' ... which I guess hadn't been invented.

    RNW: English 2008

  • This may be an ancient gesture from the Middle East; Psalms 60:10, speaking of some of the traditional enemies of Judah, says that "Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe...."

    Monday, June 30, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • This may be an ancient gesture from the Middle East; Psalms 60:10, speaking of some of the traditional enemies of Judah, says that "Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe...."

    Monday, June 16, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • The raiding party found a large iron washpot filled with hundreds of mid-nineteenth-century U.S. gold coins.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • It added up to an uncannily familiar modus operandi: the cryptically carved beech trees, the location near a river, the geometric formations, the use of an iron washpot to contain the coins.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • Moving from a paper clip to a buried iron washpot full of coins or an iron safe stuffed with jewels, the principle is the same.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • I could see a little of one side of the rusty washpot.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • Whether the circular depression was the imprint of the missing second washpot containing the rumored $80,000 in gold coins could never be known.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • When the group tried to remove the gold-filled washpot—reportedly found with guidance from a smudged waybill—they could not lift it out of the hole because of the weight of the coins inside.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • Bob quickly located what appeared to be a depression where the washpot likely had been found in 1907, as indicated on the map drawn in the Old West article.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

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