Pot
Alt. of race
To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
To secure; gain; win; bag.
To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.
The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool;
a horse heavily backed; a favorite.
A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.
The total of the bets at one time; the pool.
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.
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.
A size of paper. See Pott.
To place or inclose in pots
To preserve seasoned in pots.
To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
To pocket.
To tipple; to drink.
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Pot Quotations
I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
Paul McCartney
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Garrison Keillor
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
Thomas Huxley
When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Emo Philips
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
Ted Allen
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
Tommy Chong
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown
We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
John Prescott
I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
Krist Novoselic
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
George McGovern
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
Alan Rickman
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
Mordecai Richler
I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.
Lindsay Lohan
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
Wole Soyinka
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella
I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.
Kirstie Alley
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
Shannen Doherty
The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
Carol Moseley Braun
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Ernest Istook
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Bill Griffith
As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.
John Zorn
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.
Carol Alt
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
Johnny Rivers
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
Bob Ney
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
Ricky Gervais
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
Jane Elliot
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Pot Translations
pot in Afrikaans is pot
pot in Danish is kande
pot in Dutch is po
pot in Finnish is ruukku
pot in French is pot
pot in German is Topf, Kochtopf
pot in Italian is vaso
pot in Latin is scaphium (sciphus
pot in Norwegian is gryte, potte
pot in Spanish is orinal, cantaro, jarro, olla
pot in Swedish is kanna, gryta, kruka, burk
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