English Explanatory Dictionary

try pot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

try pot try pots trypot try-pot

Etymology

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

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