paint pot

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noun

Also paintpot . a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied.

Geology. a spring or pit filled with boiling colored mud.

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Origin of paint pot

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby paint pot

painterly, painter's colic, paint horse, painting, paint oneself into a corner, paint pot, paint roller, paint stripper, paint the town red, paintwork, painty

How to use paint pot in a sentence

I had four and a half rows to trim, and then the whole orchard to go over with paint pot and gouge and cement.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
Not to give up his sweetheart for the sake of a paint-pot, I hope?
The Tragic Muse|Henry James
Just at the corner of the street he met the man with the paint-pot, who asked him if he had deserted the brethren.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles|Thomas Hardy
The artist looked round to see which paint-pot he could aim at the Enlightened Counsellor's head.
The Green Book|Mr Jkai

"It is good to bear the yoke in our youth: I find it discipline to paint pot-boilers," rejoined little Christie mildly.
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax|Harriet Parr