gallipot
Example Sentences
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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
Great hackney-coaches, sunk at the waist like those old gallipot boats of ours, went ploughing past through the mud of mid-road, with bepowdered footmen clinging behind and saucy coachmen perched in front.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
Pour some into small boxes for present use, and the remainder into a gallipot tied down with a bladder.—Another.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
