gallipot
Example Sentences
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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
There was an old gallipot or two, and there was a broken bottle or so, and there were some broken boxes for seats.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Let it boil for five minutes, and turn it into a gallipot to cool.
From Handbook of Embroidery by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
For years I have been but a gallipot for you experimentizers to rinse your experiments into, and now, in this livid skin, partake of the nature of my contents.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
When any thing, as a gallipot, &c. is to be supported at a considerable height within a jar, it is convenient to have such wire stands as are represented fig.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
