gallipot
Example Sentences
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It was enclosed in a gallipot, and was what I believe they called an electuary.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Pare a couple of good sized baking apples; core them, cut them into quarters, and put them, with a small strip of thin lemon-rind, into a gallipot.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. by Charles Peters
N.B.—Let the gallipot have in it a muslin bag: the water can then be drained out from time to time, and the paste will be much better.
From Handbook of Embroidery by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
I’d have no objection if you were, so that you’d capture me from that frightful gallipot!
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
Put under the chair a narrow metal cup or gallipot, if it will stand fire filled with spirits of wine.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
