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Noun

pot (plural pots)

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

   Synonyms:

   cookpot, cooking pot

   1. (preceded by definite article) The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
      • Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143
2. A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
3. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
4. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
   • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
5. A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
   • Shit or get off the pot.

   Synonyms:

   can, chamber pot, potty, shitpot, chamber, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder

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