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† rob-pot Obs. [f. rob v. + pot n.1 1 c.] A deep drinker, a toper.1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 48 Ile challenge all the true rob-pots in Europe to leape vp to the chinne in a barrell of beere. 1603 Dekker Wonderfull Yeare Wks. (Grosart) I. 139 My puffing Host..blest himselfe, that a L...
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rob- the stem of rob v., used in a few combs. in the 17th cent., in the sense of ‘one who robs (the person or thing specified)’, as rob-altar, -carrier, -God, -orchard, -thief. Also rob-pot.1614 T. Adams Devil's Banquet ii. 49 ‘Will a man rob God?’.. But, alas, what law can be giuen to *rob Altars?1...
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