Chamber-pot definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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There is the man who once hurled at me (nor did he miss his aim) a missile that caused them all to laugh, even the ill-smelling chamber-pot; crashed about my head, it was shivered into shards, breathing upon me an odour unlike that of unguent-jars.

—Laudator Temporis Acti

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A vessel for urine, used in bedrooms.

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There is the man who once hurled at me (nor did he miss his aim) a missile that caused them all to laugh, even the ill-smelling chamber-pot; crashed about my head, it was shivered into shards, breathing upon me an odour unlike that of unguent-jars. — Laudator Temporis Acti
None of this namby-pamby virtual stuff, but the real made-in-America kind -- the stay-up-all-night, read-from-the-telephone-book, keep-the-chamber-pot-nearby kind, as described memorably by Eleanor Clift in Newsweek a few years back: — TPMCafe
I stumbled over a cat, a footstool, and a chamber-pot in my journey to her presence. — The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
Zeus and his chamber-pot sieve. — The Greek View of Life
Sure, you might as well be talking, do you know, to a flaming chamber-pot as talking to Temple. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man