Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Boiling a pot: applied to boroughs in which, before the Reform Act of 1832, pot-wallopers were entitled to vote.
- noun The sound made by a pot in boiling.
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Examples
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If you will look closely you will detect traces of tight corsets and other sartorial enginery with which Dame Fashion attempts to eliminate the little life which continual cooking, washing and pot-walloping has left -- for woman, though her heart be broken, her spirit crushed and her viscera a chaos, still clings to her vanity, will "follow the fashions" though they lead to a funeral.
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Mightinesses the Dutchmen, went at it Hammer and Tongs about the Spanish succession with King Lewis of France, I, who had always been fond of the army, resolved to give up pot-walloping and take another turn under canvas.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Allowing two members for each county -- which makes 64 -- there is no principle which can be exactly applied for classing the boroughs and selecting the great towns, and tho 'it would be easy to compensate the close boroughs, it is almost impossible to compensate pot-walloping boroughs. [
William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898
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