glue-potn.
1. A pot in which glue is melted by the heat of water in an outer vessel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel in which liquid is boiled > [noun] > vessel for heating oil, size, etc. > specific
pitch pot1295
pitch kettle1420
glue-pot1483
paste-kettle1825
1483 Cath. Angl. 160/1 A Glew pott, glutinarium.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv I thinke thou dost Varnish thy face with the fat on't, it lookes so like a Glew-pot . View more context for this quotation
a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. ii. 45 in Poems (1638) He with the peggs of amity and concord, As with the glew-pot of good Government Ioynts 'em together.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 102 Pour it into your Glew-pot to use, but let your Glew-pot be very clean.
1900 N.E.D. at Glue-pot Mod. Put the glue-pot on the fire at once.
2. A patch of wet or muddy ground in which one ‘sticks’. colloquial.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough
sloughc900
mooreOE
letch1138
mire1219
sougha1300
dew1377
slop?a1400
flashc1440
slothc1440
slonk1488
slot?a1500
rilling1610
slab1610
water-gall1657
slunkc1700
slack1719
mudhole1721
bog-hole1788
spew1794
wetness1805
stabble1821
slob1836
sludge1839
soak1839
mudbath1856
squire-trap1859
loblolly1865
glue-pot1892
swelter1894
poaching1920
1892 Daily News 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’.
1907 Daily Chron. 18 July 7/2 The veriest ‘glue-pot’ of a wicket.
1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 137 Was it surprising that in a short time the ‘glue pot’ no longer bogged the jinker?
1963 Times 14 Jan. 3/2 If Cardiff is not a gluepot these two should be able to launch some fine attacks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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