The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]
A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. ``Give her a pot and a cake.''
--De Foe.A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
--Knight.A size of paper. See Pott.
marijuana. [slang]
The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]
(Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.
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(Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool. Jack pot. See under 2d Jack. Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. Pot companion, a companion in drinking. Pot hanger, a pothook. Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. Pot metal.
The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.
An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
--Ure.-
A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
--Knight.Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.
Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.
To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.]
--Dryden.
--J. G. Saxe.
Usage examples of "pot helmet".
Several bricks came straight down, bouncing off his pot helmet with dull clangs, but Pikel seemed not to notice.
He looked balefully at the closed-pot helmet he'd be sweating in one hour from now.
Omar Bradley, in a new-style pot helmet with three gold stars painted on it, pointed from his observation post out toward the fighting line and said, “.
Lightning fast, he smacked Pikel twice on the shoulder and once on the pot helmet, which rang loudly.
Ivan stepped forward and launched a punch, but Pikel knew it was coming, of course, and he snapped his head forward, dropping his cooking pot helmet into his waiting, and blocking, hand.
Tanis wrapped his arms and legs around the chain, hanging on just above the kender, but the dwarf missed his hold, landing in the pot helmet first.
The short drop to the ground forced a grunt from him and caused his tin-pot helmet to bounce off.