† melt potn.
Obsolete. rare.
A vessel in which metals are melted; a melting pot.
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1637 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) II. 108 Quhen the siluer is put in the melting pott..Item, efter the melt pott is thus newly essayit.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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