potting

Variant of pot

pot definition

pot (pät)

noun

  1. a round vessel of any size, made of metal, earthenware, or glass, used for holding liquids, cooking or preserving food, etc.
  2. a pot with its contents
  3. potful
  4. a pot of liquor; drink; potation
  5. flowerpot, lobster pot, chimney pot, etc.
    1. chamber pot
    2. Slang a toilet: with the
  7. Informal
    1. all the money bet at a single time; pool; kitty
    2. a large amount, as of money
  8. Informal a potshot
  9. Slang
  10. potbelly

Etymology: ME < OE pott, akin to Du & Fr pot < ML pottus < VL potus, drinking cup < L, a drink < potare: see potable

transitive verb potted pot′·ted, potting pot′·ting

  1. to put into a pot
  2. to preserve in a pot or jar
  3. to cook in a pot
  4. to shoot (game) for food instead of for sport
  5. to hit or secure by or as by a potshot
  6. Informal to secure, win, or capture; bag

intransitive verb

Informal to take a potshot; shoot
pot Idioms

go to pot

to go to ruin; deteriorate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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