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ˈglue-pot
1. A pot in which glue is melted by the heat of water in an outer vessel.
1483Cath. Angl. 160/1 A Glew pott, glutinarium. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. iv, I thinke thou dost Varnish thy face with the fat on't, it lookes so like a Glew-pot. a1634Randolph Muse's Looking-gl. iii. ii, He, with the pegs of amity and concord, (As with the glue-pot of good government) Joints 'em together. 1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. I. 102 Pour it into your Glew-pot to use, but let your Glew-pot be very clean. Mod. Put the glue-pot on the fire at once.
2. A patch of wet or muddy ground in which one ‘sticks’. colloq.
1892Daily News (Morris), The Bishop of Manchester..assures us that no one can possibly understand the difficulties and the troubles of a Colonial..clergyman until he has..struggled through what they used to call ‘glue-pots’. 1907Daily Chron. 18 July 7/2 The veriest ‘glue-pot’ of a wicket. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 137 Was it surprising that in a short time the ‘glue pot’ no longer bogged the jinker? 1963Times 14 Jan. 3/2 If Cardiff is not a gluepot these two should be able to launch some fine attacks. |