Pot /(?)/

Pot

n.
  1. 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.
  2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
  3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
  4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
  5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
  6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
  7. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
  8. A size of paper. See Pott.
  9. marijuana. [slang]
  10. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; (Racing, Eng.) [Slang]
  11. A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet. (Armor)
  12. The total of the bets at one time; the pool. (Card Playing)

Phrases & Compounds
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
Pot plant
either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.
Pot wheel
a noria.
To go to pot
to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse.

Pot

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n. Potting

  1. To place or inclose in pots (Billiards)
  2. 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.
  3. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]

Pot

v. i.
  1. To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    It is less labor to plow than to pot it.
    — Feltham.
  2. To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.