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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. i...
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Glue pot
Glue pot may refer to: a device for keeping animal glue at its working temperature in cricket, a sticky wicket
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glue
▪ I. glue, n. (gl(j)uː) Forms: 4–5 glu, 4–8 glew(e, (4 glyu, 5 glowe, gluwe, glewȝ, 6 gleu), 4– glue. [ad. OF. glu (sense 1), Pr. glut:—late L. glūt-em, glūs glue.] † 1. Bird-lime. Also fig. Obs.c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 223 Flee we her sentence as heresie or fendis glewe. c 1440 Promp. Parv....
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Trinity Chain Pier
slow and unreliable; Walter Scott in The Antiquary (1816) described the journey from Edinburgh to cross at Queensferry as being "like a fly through a glue-pot
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jacket
▪ I. jacket, n. (ˈdʒækɪt) Forms: 5 iaquet, -ette, 5–6 iaket, -ette, 6 iakett, iackett(e, iakket, iacquet(e, -quit, iakquet, 5–7 iacket, 7– jacket. [a. OF. jaquet, jacquet, dim. of jaque: jack n.2] 1. a. An outer garment for the upper part of the body: orig. the same as, or a shorter form of the jack...
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English cricket team in Australia in 1950–51
solid players such as Jack Robertson, Dennis Brookes, Jack Ikin and Bill Edrich we would have won the Ashes - in spite of once again being caught on a glue-pot
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Albert Cordingley
contributing 7 of the runs in a narrow 18-run victory for the visitors in an unusual 12-a-side match played on what Cordingley himself described as a "glue-pot
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web
▪ I. web, n. (wɛb) Forms: 1 web, 1–2 webb, 3 weob, 3–8 webb, 4–5 veb(b, 4–7 webbe, 5–7 webe, 6 wabe, 3– web. Also Sc. and north. 6 vob, wobb(e, 6–9 wob, 7 woob, 8– 9 wab. [OE. web(b neut., corresp. to OFris. web, wob (WFris. web, webbe, NFris. wêb, wäb), OS. webbi (MLG. and LG. webbe), MDu. and Du. ...
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1950–51 Ashes series
The pitch was reduced to a "mudheap", "sticky dog" or "glue-pot" so beloved by purists as only a batsman with classic technique could hope to play on it
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pot
▪ I. pot, n.1 (pɒt) Forms: 2–8 pott, 4–7 potte, (5 putte), 3– pot. (Also 4–5 poot, 5 Sc. poyt, mod.Sc. dial. pat, patt.) [Late OE. or early ME. pott, cognate with OFris. pot, MDu. pot(t, Du. pot, MLG. pot, put, LG. pot(t; whence mod.Ger. pott, late ON. potte (c 1300), Sw. potta, Da. potte; also with...
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