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ˈpot-head colloq.
[pot n.1]
1. A stupid person. So ˈpot-ˌheaded a., stupid, thick-headed.
1533More Apol. xlvii. Wks. 920/2 These heretikes..some potheaded postles they haue, that wander about y⊇ realme into sondry shyres. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xv, She was too good for a poor pot-head like me.
2. Canada. In full, pothead whale. = ca'ing-whale, caa'ing whale, pilot-whale s.v. pilot n. 8.
1863Islander (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) 14 Aug. 2/3 Large numbers of Potheads are in the Bay, which probably accounts for the squid panic. 1964Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Mar. 92/3 Entire herds of 40-foot pothead whales have been known to run aground on the beaches. 1979Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 16 July 2a/1 More than 170 pothead whales beached themselves on Sunday.
3. Electr. An insulated connector used for making a sealed joint between conductors, esp. between insulated and uninsulated lines.
1901W. J. Hopkins Telephone Lines (rev. ed.) ii. 38 (in figure) Pot head splice. 1903Phil. Mag. V. 327 The cables were brought out to pot-heads, and each wire terminated in a screw-cup. 1930H. P. Seelye Electr. Distribution Engin. xxvi. 497 The pothead usually consists of a cast-iron tank or pot into which the cable is inserted... The conductors pass through the pot and are either brought out through porcelain bushings, or are attached to conducting terminals fixed in the bushings. The pot is then filled with insulating compound. 1963K. Neville in D. Knight 100 Yrs. Sci. Fiction (1969) 73 Ramon Lopez, one of the truck crew, was killed today hosing down a high-voltage pothead.
4. (See pot n.5 2.) |