gallipot
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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
Take of each one table-spoonful—spermaceti grated, honey, and peppermint water; mix all together with the yolks of two eggs in a gallipot.
From A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elmé Francatelli
If you will look in that cupboard," he said, "you will find an old respectable looking roll on a plate and a knife somewhere and a gallipot containing butter.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And she sped away, bringing back an old gallipot, which she filled, and held to the child's lips.
From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
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
