pot vs slop-bowl

pot

noun
  • A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot. 

  • A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. 

  • A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot. 

  • A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL). 

  • Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave. 

  • An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet. 

  • Marijuana. 

  • A favorite: a heavily-backed horse. 

  • A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot. 

  • A perforated cask for draining sugar. 

  • A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. 

  • A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground. 

  • The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement. 

  • A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies. 

  • A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot. 

  • A plaster cast. 

  • Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot. 

  • A crucible: a melting pot. 

  • Ruin or deterioration. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To put (something) into a pot. 

  • To secure; gain; win; bag. 

  • To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer. 

  • To send someone to gaol, expeditiously. 

  • To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask. 

  • To preserve by bottling or canning. 

  • To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. 

  • To be capable of being potted. 

  • To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb. 

  • To shoot with a firearm. 

  • To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot. 

  • To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching. 

  • To score (a drop goal). 

slop-bowl

noun
  • Part of a traditional tea set, used to empty the cold tea and dregs in tea cups before refilling with hot tea. Usually pottery or silver. 

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