gluepot

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noun A utensil for dissolving glue, usually consisting of two pots, one within the other.
noun A part of a road so bad that the wheels of a carriage would stick in it.

noun A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.

From glue +‎ pot.

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He shaped well when beaten little more than a dozen lengths in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury first time out and then got stuck in the gluepot ground at the Welsh National.

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It needs to be controlled. .or it's all about a gluepot.

Cajun Okra Pickles Lindy 2006
It needs to be controlled..or it's all about a gluepot.

Pickles Lindy 2008
It needs to be controlled. .or it's all about a gluepot.

Toast: Lindy 2006
Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O gluepot.

Ulysses 2003
I hate these modern synthetics, but a lovely old-fashioned smelly gluepot was a wistful dream in these crummy circumstances.

The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
For he wondered that I, for whom he had such a great esteem, should be stuck so fast in the gluepot of pleasure as to maintain, whenever we discussed the subject, that I could not possibly live a celibate life.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
Well, the chimney swift carries a gluepot with him.

Friends and Helpers Sarah J. Eddy
The Tinker has now set on his grimy gluepot, and the glue simmers.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
Your starving eyes and allbeplastered neck you stole my heart, O gluepot.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911