ˈglue-pot
1. A pot in which glue is melted by the heat of water in an outer vessel.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 160/1 A Glew pott, glutinarium. 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. iv, I thinke thou dost Varnish thy face with the fat on't, it lookes so like a Glew-pot. a 1634 Randolph Muse's Looking-gl. iii. ii, He, with the pegs of amity and concord, (As with the glue-pot of good government) Joints 'em together. 1678 Moxon Mech. Exerc. I. 102 Pour it into your Glew-pot to use, but let your Glew-pot be very clean. Mod. Put the glue-pot on the fire at once. |
2. A patch of wet or muddy ground in which one ‘sticks’. colloq.
| 1892 Daily News (Morris), The Bishop of Manchester..assures us that no one can possibly understand the difficulties and the troubles of a Colonial..clergyman until he has..struggled through what they used to call ‘glue-pots’. 1907 Daily Chron. 18 July 7/2 The veriest ‘glue-pot’ of a wicket. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 137 Was it surprising that in a short time the ‘glue pot’ no longer bogged the jinker? 1963 Times 14 Jan. 3/2 If Cardiff is not a gluepot these two should be able to launch some fine attacks. |