† pen-potn.Obsolete a basket or pot serving as a trap to catch lobsters or crabs.
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1753 P. Collinson in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 41 That the crab will subsist..in the fishermens pen-pots, for the space of some months.