A container in which a prospector collects tiny fragments of gold or precious stones.
we haven't weighed our poverty pot but there's over a pound's worth of gold in it
Example sentencesExamples
- The gold won is put in a receptacle called by the miners the "poverty pot".
- She turned away and with shaking hands put her opals back in the poverty pot.
- The little specks of gold are carefully washed into a handy tin known as the poverty-pot.
- When the stone is sampled and crushed and panned, you've always the "poverty pot" on hand.
- Put an empty kerosene tin aside for a 'poverty pot'.