Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A still to which heat is applied directly as to a pot, in contradistinction to one heated by a steam-jacket. See still.

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Examples

  • With its 29 pot-still pans, 280 workers and a production of over a million liters of vodka annually, Gripsholm was once the largest distillery in Sweden.

    Luxist 2010

  • With its 29 pot-still pans, 280 workers and a production of over a million liters of vodka annually, Gripsholm was once the largest distillery in Sweden.

    Luxist 2010

  • With its 29 pot-still pans, 280 workers and a production of over a million liters of vodka annually, Gripsholm was once the largest distillery in Sweden.

    Luxist 2010

  • Using ingredients indigenous to the island, Seger infused a rum base (a blend of North Shore Distillery pot-still rum and organic Bolivian rum) with botanicals like hibiscus, ginger, cardamom and kaffir lime.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Using ingredients indigenous to the island, Seger infused a rum base (a blend of North Shore Distillery pot-still rum and organic Bolivian rum) with botanicals like hibiscus, ginger, cardamom and kaffir lime.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • It has a distinct twinge of sea salt and lemon on the nose, and a swelling richness on the palate thanks to the pot-still.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2009

  • Prichard’s, a small-shop maker of rum in Kelso, Tennessee, was already in the pot-still game.

    Wednesday is for Food and Wine Peter Schorsch 2009

  • _2nd Wrenboy_: One night I was attending a pot-still, roasting oats for to make still-whiskey, and I seen hares coming out of the wood, by fours and by sixes, and they as thin as thin ....

    Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory 1892

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