paint-pot

I had strayed forward where the sailors were painting, and I came to myself to find my advancing foot on the verge of overturning a paint-pot.

Chapter 23 2010

He must think of the poor excitement of getting the paint-pot and the ladder, of watching the receding police patrol, the tremulous triumph of smearing the hated object.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

A flying paint-pot materialized in the face of the third attacker and did for him.

The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot.

Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971

She stopt what she would have said, with all the easiness of a girl of quality, but a modesty they have exchanged for the paint-pot and whitewash in which they now blaze out.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Boiled oil 37.lbs. Spirits turpentine 0.4 lb. Make a thick paste with the ochre and oil in a paint-pot, and with the lampblack and oil in another.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

"I'll hold the paint-pot, and you can dip your brush in."

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Laura Lee Hope

Here Lipp stopped speaking and dipped his brush in the paint-pot, for his master was coming around the corner of the house.

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various

Yet the whole interior of this cathedral is itself a picture, or rather a countless succession of pictures; as to the architecture there is not the minutest space that has not been emblazoned by aid of a paint-pot.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

He descends at Main street, just in time to observe the man with the ladder and paint-pot working his way up along.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various