paint pot

noun

1. Also paintpot. a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied.
2. Geology. a spring or pit filled with boiling colored mud.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paint pot¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

I had four and a half rows to trim, and then the whole orchard to go over with paint pot and gouge and cement.

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Not to give up his sweetheart for the sake of a paint-pot, I hope?

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Just at the corner of the street he met the man with the paint-pot, who asked him if he had deserted the brethren.

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The artist looked round to see which paint-pot he could aim at the Enlightened Counsellor's head.

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"It is good to bear the yoke in our youth: I find it discipline to paint pot-boilers," rejoined little Christie mildly.

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