Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large iron pot used for the purpose of boiling pitch for paying the seams of wooden ships after calking.
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Examples
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“And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir?” moving his hand as with a pitch-pot.
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Tung Wang Kung, the King of the Immortals, was playing at pitch-pot
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They played games of calculation, chess (or the 'game of war'), shuttlecock with the feet, pitch-pot (throwing arrows from a distance into a narrow-necked jar), and 'horn-goring' (fighting on the shoulders of others with horned masks on their heads).
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Later on they seized the cocks by the necks, shouted for the pitch-pot and patched up the bleeding combs.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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"Go and join 'em then, you sable son of a three-legged pitch-pot."
King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale George Manville Fenn 1870
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When the pot began to boil, the steam passed through the pipe into the cask, where it was condensed into water, minus the saline particles, which, not being evaporable, were left behind in the pitch-pot.
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He happened to have on board an old iron pitch-pot, with a wooden cover.
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"And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir?" moving his hand as with a pitch-pot.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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"And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir?" moving his hand as with a pitch-pot.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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When he made this discovery he dabbed his hand again into the pitch-pot, exclaiming, --
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