Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lid or cover of a pot.
- noun A concretion occurring in various sandstones and shales, especially those of different parts of the Jurassic series.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lid or cover of a pot.
- noun a valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
lid that covers apot .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.
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Complaint, Small Hability, and the like; the Vice, Ambidexter, who enters 'with an old capcase on his head, an old pail about his hips for harness, a scummer and a potlid by his side, and a rake on his shoulder'; and the same scuffling and horseplay when the comic element is uppermost.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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He stooped to pick up a dropped potlid and came up very red in the face.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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