gallipot

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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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Not for himself but for his country he prepares his gallipot, and seals up his precious drops for any country or any town, so great is his zeal and philanthropy.—Goldsmith,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

A small boy with a switch, a tiny nose, and a swinging gallipot, his cheeks lit with the sunset, followed soon after.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter

Mr. Morgan himself enriched this mess with a lump of salt butter scooped from an old gallipot, and a handful of onions shorn, with some pounded pepper.

From The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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 Mayer, Brantz