gallipot

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As the genie of the oriental tale unfolded his huge height from the bottle stamped with Solomon's seal, so the career of Davy first evolved itself out of old vials and gallipots.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry

The responsibility for the gallipots article, as for so many others in the Blackwood of the time, may have been in some sort collective.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

I hardly dared to ask the skipper who still sat at the table, with a most dolorous face, arranging the vials and gallipots.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Barney came to think that this remedy which Charlotte prepared was of more efficacy than any which the doctor mixed in his gallipots.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Twelve jolly gallipots Jill put by; And one little teeny one, One inch high; And that she's hidden A good thumb deep, Half way over From Wicking to Weep.

From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by De la Mare, Walter