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Pot

/pɒt/

Other words from pot's letters

noun

  1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  2. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
  3. Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot
  4. Ruin or deterioration.
  5. An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
  6. A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
  7. The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.
  8. A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  9. A plaster cast.

Synonyms: cooking pot, cookpot, kitty, pool

verb

  1. To put (something) into a pot.
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  3. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  4. To be capable of being potted.
  5. To shoot with a firearm.
  6. To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  7. To secure; gain; win; bag.
  8. To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  9. To tipple; to drink.
  10. To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
  11. To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  12. To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

noun

  1. Marijuana

noun

  1. A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

noun

  1. A large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch.
  2. A potbelly stove.
  3. A Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig.

Synonyms: kettlebelly

noun

  1. A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.

Synonyms: lib

noun

  1. A shot taken at an easy or random target.
  2. Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.

noun

  1. An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

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