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paint-pot

paint-pot is the alternative form of paintpot.

Meaning of paintpot

Noun

paintpot (plural paintpots)

  1. A pot for holding paint.
    • Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository, page 80
  2. (dated) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.
    • […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390

Forms of paint-pot

pluralpaint-pots

Questions about paint-pot

What is paint-pot the alternative form of?
Paint-pot is the alternative form of paintpot.

Words near paint-pot in the dictionary

  1. paint with a wide brush
  2. paint with the same brush
  3. paint-billed crake
  4. paint-billed crakes
  5. paint-by-numbers
  6. paint-pot
  7. paint-pots
  8. paint-root
  9. paintability
  10. paintable
  11. paintableness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paint-pot (page history and authors); paintpot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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