ˈlime-pot
[f. lime n.1]
A pot to contain lime or birdlime; a vessel of lime to pour upon assailants in a fight (Hist.); † a pot or furnace in which limestone is burnt; a lime-wash pot.
| 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 703/5, Hoc viscerium, a lyme-pott. 1483 Cath. Angl. 217/1 A Lyme pott or brusche, viscarium, viminarium. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 41 Boitis man, bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top. 1596 Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890) 160/1 Vastam caudam terre cum lie vorkhousis et lymepottis ad australem partem. 1692 in Rec. Convent. R. Burghs (1880) IV. 571 Item, a years rent of lim potts and grass at the east port 3 8 8. 1860 Hewitt Anc. Armour III. 489 Both fire-pots and lime-pots were employed at the siege of Harfleur in 1415. 1860 Ecclesiologist XXI. 218 A man armed with a fire-pot, or lime-pot. |