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ˈwater-pot
1. A vessel, usually of earthenware, for holding water.
1382Wyclif John iv. 28 Therfore the womman lefte the watir pott [Vulg. hydriam]. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 234 And she set doun hir water pot anon Biside the thresshfold. 1390Gower Conf. I. 302 The waterpot sche hente alofte..And al the water on his hed Sche pourede oute. 1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 86 Item, a water pot of siluer. 1526Tindale John ii. 6. 1530 Palsgr. 287/1 Water potte for a table, aiguiere. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 160 They founde here also sundry kyndes of waterpottes made of earthe of dyuers colours. 1612in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 599, 6 greate silver water-potts. a1700Evelyn Diary 16 Nov. 1643, A morsel of one of the water-pots in which our Saviour did his first miracle. 1702Post Man 6–8 Aug. 2/1 Stoln..out of the House of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg, a Silver Oval Shaving-dish, a Silver Water Pot, and a Silver Box for a Wash-ball. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1029, I have..seen an English moulder expert enough to make 25 waterpots a day. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. v. 302 Striking down the choicest warriors of England with the staves on which they bore their waterpots.
b. Astr. The portion of the zodiacal constellation Aquarius which is figured as a vase or urn.
1546Gassar's Prognost. b iij, Wherin at night Mercuri also shall sette after the Sunne with bright Hidria or water pott. Ibid. b iv b, The sunne settyng wyth Alphard, y⊇ bright water pott. 1590T. Hood Use Celestial Globe 13 The Waterpot, v. Vrna. 1841Emerson Ess. Ser. i. i. (1848) 2 As crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance, and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac, so [etc.].
c. Her. (See quots.)
1688[see fontal B. 2]. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Water-Pot, a fontal, called, also, a scatebra, out of which naiads and river-gods are represented as pouring the waters or rivers over which they are fabled to preside.
2. = watering-pot 1.
1530Palsgr. 287/1 Water potte for a gardyne, arrousouer. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 200 Why, this would make a man, a man of Salt To vse his eyes for Garden water-pots. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Ad. Sect. 7. 110 Private Devotions, and secret offices of Religion, are like refreshing of a Garden with the distilling and petty drops of a Waterpot. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 168 For Places near at hand, Gardeners make use of Water-Pots. 1828–32Webster, Water-pot, a vessel..for sprinkling water on cloth in bleaching, or on plants, etc. c1890Stevenson In South Seas i. x. (1900) 83 He..was to be seen all day, with spade and water-pot, in his childlike eagerness, actually running between the borders.
fig.1583B. Melbancke Philotimus L iij, Here is a drie Tale (quoth Parmenio)..and well deserues a water potte.
3. A chamber-pot. ? Sc.
1850,1883Ogilvie.
4. Zool. = watering-pot 2.
1815S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 157 Water Pot, Serpula Penis. |