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beanpot

beanpot noun: a pot for cooking or serving beans.

Noun

beanpot (plural beanpots)

  1. A pot for cooking or serving beans.
    • Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.1957, House and Garden, volume 111
    • There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork.1982, Betty Jane Morison, Champagne and a Gardener

Proper noun capitalized: Beanpot

Beanpot

  1. (US) An annual men's and women's ice hockey tournament among the four major college hockey teams of the Greater Boston area in the United States.

Forms of beanpot

pluralbeanpots
alternative formbean pot

Origin of beanpot

From bean + pot.

Questions about beanpot

What does beanpot mean?
Beanpot means a pot for cooking or serving beans.
What part of speech is beanpot?
Beanpot can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of beanpot?
The plural of beanpot is beanpots.

Words near beanpot in the dictionary

  1. beanplots
  2. beanpole
  3. beanpole families
  4. beanpole family
  5. beanpoles
  6. beanpot
  7. beanpots
  8. beans
  9. beans and rice
  10. beans bunnies
  11. beans bunny

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