quart-pot

And, I think, this word sallet was born to do me good: for, many a time, but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and, many a time, when I have been dry, and bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a quart-pot to drink in; and now the word sallet must serve me to feed on.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

This was a pathetic description of the decease of Mr. Bardell, who had been knocked on the head with a quart-pot in a public-house cellar.

Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

He cannot do it, any more than a pint-pot can hold a quart, or a quart-pot be filled by a pint.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

And yet we rather doubt his skill upon this point; we never perceived anything more than a sound and a jog, something similar to what you hear in the cabin of a fourpenny steam-boat, and especially mistrusted the "metallic tinkling," and the noise resembling a blacksmith's bellows blowing into an empty quart-pot, which is called the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

One could crawl into it and turn around and that was about all, It surely must have shrunk or filled up or contracted or something, such a poor little quart-pot of a cavern it proved to be.

My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

Bridget liked seeing Colin hail-fellow-well-met with them all – sharing tucker and quart-pot tea.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

He himself was going to boil the quart-pot tea and would give Biddy a demonstration in johnny-cakes, made bush fashion at their own camp fire.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

I refilled the quart-pot in which we had boiled our tea with water from the creek, father doused our fire out with it, and then tied the quart to the D of his saddle with a piece of green hide.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

"Ever try to boil an emu's egg in a quart-pot?" the man from Beyanst asked, "lending a hand" with another piece of fencing wire, using it as a fork to turn the steak on the impromptu gridiron.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

The tea had been made in the Maluka's quart-pot, our cups having been carried dangling from our saddles, in the approved manner of the bush-folk.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915