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galleypot

galleypot is the alternative form of gallipot.

Meaning of gallipot

Noun

gallipot (plural gallipots)

  1. A small, glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding medicine and ointment.
    • VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of tincture, high roſe tincture.1625 January 19 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Ben Jonson], The Fortunate Isles and Their Union. […], [London: s.n.], published [1625], →OCLC, signature [A4], verso
  2. (archaic) Someone who uses such pots; an apothecary.
    • ‘We are physicians' gallipots. Don't you want the sick healed?’1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11

Forms of galleypot

pluralgalleypots

Questions about galleypot

What is galleypot the alternative form of?
Galleypot is the alternative form of gallipot.

Words near galleypot in the dictionary

  1. galley-worm
  2. galley-worms
  3. galleylike
  4. galleyman
  5. galleymen
  6. galleypot
  7. galleypots
  8. galleys
  9. galleyslave
  10. galleyworm
  11. galleyworms

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