chamber-pot
(ˈtʃeɪmbəˌpɒt)
[f. chamber n. + pot. (Cf. F. pot de chambre.)]
A vessel used in a bedchamber for urine and slops. (In the crockery-trade, often euphemized as chamber.)
| 1570 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 348 Fyue chamber pottes of pouther vs. 1607 Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 85. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Iordan, a chamberpot. 1698 Christ Exalted 63 Hath not the Potter power over the Clay, of the same lump to make a hundred Chamber-pots and but five drinking Vessels? 1776 Phil. Trans. LXVI. 583. 1850 W. Irving Goldsmith 114 My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favor of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals. |