gallipot

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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 Melville, Herman

"Don't know as I ever heard tell of that story," said the man who had spoken first, pouring some hot tea into a gallipot.

From Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout by Leighton, Robert

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 Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

Mrs. King had hurried down-stairs, and at the threshold stood a watery figure, holding out the gallipot.

From Friarswood Post Office by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow—the Scots' gallipot purveyor—Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey Random—how did the fellow call his rubbish?

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace