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1792 H. Remsen Let. 19 Nov. in J. Catanzariti Papers T. Jefferson (1990) XXIV. 640 If he has to add to his paint pot before finishing a room, it is scarcely possible for him to get exactly the same kind of paint.

1835 W. A. Caruthers Cavaliers of Virginia II. viii. 157 They brought me the paint-pot, and wanted me to figure off one iv [i.e. of] their beautiful gourds.

1896 Bow Bells 6 Mar. 264/2 One man was tying a paint-pot to the rung of the ladder.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 100/4 Into an earthenware bowl I pour about half a pint of naphtha, work a brush in it..then pour the naphtha into an empty paint pot.

1992 Pract. Householder Nov. 55/2 A ladder tray will provide somewhere to put things like paint pots when you are up a ladder.

1887 Harper's Mag. June 601 The wonder of these hot paint pots is the coloring... Here..were pools some of which were blood red, some sulphur orange, some delicate rose-color, and some looking as if filled with hot cream.

1897 Overland Monthly June 601 We passed the wonderful Paint Pots, which are immense bubbling springs or caldrons about thirty feet in diameter, of a liquid that looks very much like white lead in one and pink lead in the other.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 189/1 The ‘paint-pots’ of the Yellowstone National Park are small mud volcanoes.

1992 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Travel section) 11 Small geysers known as paint pots gurgled colorfully in a flat canyon, splashing yellow, blue, green and brown minerals over the snow.