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pot-lid
[f. pot n.1 + lid n.]
1. The lid of a pot.
(When of iron, sometimes used as a warming-pan.)
1403Nottingham Rec. II. 20, j. potlede de ligno. 1530Palsgr. 257/1 Potlydde for a potte, covuerlecque. 1590Greene Never too late ii. (1616) N iv b, To bed man, to bed, and we will haue a warme pot-lid [ed. 1590 pot-led]. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 62 (1713) II. 134 It might be, for ought they knew, a Project for altering the Breadth of Pot-lids. 1902Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 3/2 A new hobby..is the collection of small china pot-lids; the covers of those artistic jars which long ago were used for holding shrimp-paste and meats. 1924Clarke & Wrench Colour Pictures on Pot Lids i. 4 The collecting of pot lids and other Staffordshire pottery adorned with these pictures has gone on in a quiet way for some considerable time. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pott. & Porc. 181/1 Polychrome colour-printing on pottery was developed..from 1848..and was used extensively for the decoration of pot-lids. 1972Times 7 July 14/7 These Staffordshire pot lids were a nineteenth-century packaging gimmick for products such as fish paste or cold cream.
2. Curling. A stone so played as to rest on the tee.
1853W. Watson Poems & Songs 63 (E.D.D.). 1885‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits Blinkb. xiv. 271 His stone landed on the Tee. ‘A pat-lid’, said Douce Davie. 1893–4Caled. Curl. Cl. Ann. 114 A rare patlid, I fear your play is just owre guid.
3. Geol. Popular appellation of a concretion occurring in various sandstones and shales.
1827Fitton On Stonesfield-slate in Zool. Jrnl. (1828) III. 416 Concretions of calcareous grit..that form a part of almost every group... These concretions, from a coarse resemblance, are called ‘Pot-lids’; and the rock which they consist of,..bears the name of ‘Pendle’.
4. attrib. pot-lid valve, ‘a cap-formed valve which shuts down like a cover upon a port or the end of a pipe’; also, ‘the cover of the air-pump of a steam-engine’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875). |