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tarpot

noun

Etymology

From tar + pot.

  1. inherited from *budnós✻
  2. inherited from *puttaz✻
  3. derived from *pott✻
  4. derived from pot — “pot”
  5. inherited from pott
  6. inherited from pot
  7. compounded as tarpot — “tar + pot”

Definitions

  1. A pot used for carrying tar.

    • Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tarpot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA