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† nick-pot Obs. rare. [f. nick v.2] a. An innkeeper or tapster. b. A fraudulent beer-pot.
1602Rowlands Greenes Ghost (1860) 31 A necessarie caueat for victuallers and nickpots, how to beware of such insinuating companions. 1624Skelton's Ghost 19 in S.'s Wks. 1843 II. 155 Our pots were full quarted, We were not thus thwarted With froth-canne and nick-pot. |