stewpot
(ˈstjuːpɒt)
[f. as prec. + pot n.]
1. A covered pot for stewing meat, etc.
| 1628 Ford Lover's Mel. iv. ii, He chafes hugely, fumes like a stew-pot. 1806 Culina 236 Put these into a stew-pot. 1883 ‘Annie Thomas’ Mod. Housewife 108 She is a venerable bird, and would have become the stew-pot better than the spit. |
| fig. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 2/3 The very air, damp with the pestilential steam from the fever stew-pots of the slimy swamps and lagoons, is poison. |
† 2. A dish of meat cooked in a stewpot; a stew. (
Cf. stewed-pot.)
Obs.| 1542 Boorde Dyetary xii. (1870) 263 Sewe and stewpottes, and grewell made with otmell..can do lytel displeasure. 1605 Rowlands Hell's broke loose To Rdr., They were constrayned to frie..Bootes in Steakes, and Stew-pottes of old Shoes. |
¶ b. allusively. (See
stew n.2) A prostitute.
| a 1613 Overbury Characters, Sargeant (1618) N 7, Vpon one of the Sheriffs custards he is not so greedy, nor so sharp set, as at such a stew-pot. |
† 3. (See
quot.)
Obs.| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. 424/1 A Stew or Stove or Stew pot covered... This is a Vessel made of either Brass, Iron, or Copper; with high Feet and Rings on the sides by which it is removed..from place to place; in which a Fire is put..by which Rooms are made warm. |