Pot (noun)
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
Pot (noun)
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
Pot (noun)
A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
Pot (noun)
A coffee or teapot.
Pot (noun)
A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
Pot (noun)
A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.
“Shit or get off the pot.”
Pot (noun)
A crucible: a melting pot.
Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobsterpot.
Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
Pot (noun)
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
Pot (noun)
An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
Pot (noun)
Ruin or deterioration.
“After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.”
Pot (noun)
An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
Pot (noun)
The games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.
“No one’s interested. You need to sweeten the pot.”
Pot (noun)
A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
Pot (noun)
The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
Pot (noun)
clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
Pot (noun)
clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
Pot (noun)
A plaster cast.
Pot (noun)
: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
Pot (noun)
Marijuana
Pot (noun)
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.
Pot (noun)
clipping of potion
Pot (verb)
To put (something) into a pot.
“to pot a plant”
Pot (verb)
To bottling or canning.
“potted meat”
Pot (verb)
To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
Pot (verb)
To be capable of being potted.
“The black ball doesn’t pot; the red is in the way.”
Pot (verb)
To shoot with a firearm.
Pot (verb)
To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
Pot (verb)
To secure; gain; win; bag.
Pot (verb)
To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
Pot (verb)
To tipple; to drink.
Pot (verb)
To drain.
“to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off”
Pot (verb)
To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
“Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed?”
Pot (verb)
To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.