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ˈwash-pot
[f. wash v.]
†1. A servant employed to wash pots; spec. the designation of a servant employed at the Inns of Court. Obs.
1570in Black Bks. Linc. Inn (1897) I. 373, 10 s. to Ralph Richardson, the washpot in the buttery, for 6 months' wages. 1645Ibid. II. 367 The Washpot 20s., the Laundress {pstlg}4, [etc.]. 1678Ravenscroft Engl. Lawyer ii. i. 15, I was an under-Butler, or Wash-pot in the Inns of Court. 1816Temple Ch. Reg. Burials, Thomas Lock Washpot of the honble Society of the Inner Temple.
2. A vessel for washing one's hands. Obs. exc. fig. in allusion to Ps. lx. 8.
1535Coverdale Ps. lx. 8 Moab is my washpotte, ouer Edom wil I stretch out my shue. 1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 341 Sev'en comely blooming Youths..in their hands sev'en silver washpots bear. 1810Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) II. viii. 285 In an age when every London citizen makes Lochlomond his wash-pot, and throws his shoe over Ben-Nevis. 1839Carlyle Chartism viii. 166 He had to fly, with broken washpots. 1884Daily News 5 Feb. 3/1 French philosophers were using it [China] as a washpot for their satires on institutions nearer home.
3. A vessel containing melted tin, into which iron plates are plunged to be converted into tin-plate.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1253 s.v. Tin-plate.
4. A vessel used in separating silver from lead.
1879G. Gladstone Mining, Silver in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 112/2 It is usual to have small pots, called temper or wash-pots, placed between every second crystallising pot.
5. A vessel in which to wash clothes over a fire; a wash-boiler. U.S.
1926B. Isbell in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 105 At a later dance a large wash-pot of coffee, surrounded with ample tin cups, was kept boiling under a live oak tree in the yard. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet i. 12 The women surrounded by laden clotheslines and tubs and blackened wash pots. 1944T. D. Clark Pills, Petticoats & Plows xviii. 330 The devil had him imprisoned under an upturned washpot. 1952F. O'Connor Wise Blood iii. 62 His mother was standing by the washpot in the yard. |