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reel-pots

reel-pots is the plural of reel-pot.

Meaning of reel-pot

Noun

reel-pot (plural reel-pots)

  1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
    • And lastly some shall have a palsy in their feet, and will not be able to stand to anything but shake and reel from the stall into the channel—your excellent reel-pots.1604, Thomas Middleton, Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604

Questions about reel-pots

What is reel-pots the plural of?
Reel-pots is the plural of reel-pot.

Words near reel-pots in the dictionary

  1. reel pull
  2. reel to reel tape
  3. reel to reel tapes
  4. reel up
  5. reel-pot
  6. reel-pots
  7. reel-to-reel
  8. reel-to-reel tape
  9. reel-to-reel tape recorder
  10. reel-to-reel tape recorders
  11. reel-to-reel tapes

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