Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the seventeenth century, a cylindrical vessel of coarse pottery glazed with pulverized lead ore dusted upon the ware before it was fired.
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Examples
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Greedily eyeing the butter-pot hanging from a beam
Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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Greedily eyeing the butter-pot hanging from a beam
Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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A packing-case — a coffin, perhaps — took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs.
Les Miserables 2008
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In the other corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these circles of ice.
Les Miserables 2008
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"I've just put it all down in the butter-pot, so I'm afraid I can't oblige you."
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life Angela Brazil 1907
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Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying by the side of the empty butter-pot, the contents of which he had devoured.
In the Forbidden Land Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying flat by the side of the empty butter-pot.
An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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A packing-case -- a coffin, perhaps -- took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs.
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In the other corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these circles of ice.
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Above him hung a canopy made of an old carpet in which you could distinguish two Cupids in a circle of roses, and at his feet, like a pillar, rose a butter-pot bearing these words in white letters on a chocolate ground: "Executed in the presence of H.R.H. the Duke of Angoulême at Noron, 3rd of October, 1847."
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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