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try pot

noun

Etymology

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + 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. formed as try pot — “try + pot”

Definitions

  1. A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans (such…

    A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), from pinnipeds (such as walruses and seals), and (historically, to a lesser extent) from penguins.

    • Holonym: tryworks
    • Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil.

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