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pot
Consolation game Con`so*la"tion game, match match, pot
pot, race
ace, etc.
A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of
contests.
Pot
Pot Pot, v. t.
1. To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a
pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees,
and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue
it with dogs and pot it when treed. --Encyc. of
Sport.
2. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]
Pot
Pot Pot, v. i.
To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.
PotPot Pot, n.
1. 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]
2. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in
a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.
3. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the
pool. PotPot Pot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Potting.]
To place or inclose in pots; as:
(a) To preserve seasoned in pots. ``Potted fowl and fish.'
--Dryden.
(b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(c) 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. --B.
Edwards.
(d) (Billiards) To pocket. Pot
Pot Pot, v. i.
To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
It is less labor to plow than to pot it. --Feltham.
Meaning of pot from wikipedia
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pot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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