Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of box carried by beggars, and perhaps succeeding the clack-dish (which see) in point of time.
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Examples
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"I've seen that alms-pot trick before too," he said.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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