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quart-pot
a. A pot capable of containing the measure of a quart. Also Austral., a billy-can of this measure for boiling tea-water, etc.
1422–2Abingdon Acc. (1892) 94 Item j quartpot. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 23 A quart pot of pewter. 1550Crowley Epigr. 363 Go fyll me thys quarte pot. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 16 Many a time..it hath seru'd me insteede of a quart pot to drinke in. 1613Wither Abuses Stript i. v. 240 Sometime in reuenge the quart-pot flies. 1711Steele Spect. No. 22 ⁋5, I came in with a Tub about me, that Tub hung with Quart-pots. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxv, A quart-pot..filled with gin and water. 1838H. Capper South Australia (ed. 2) 71 List of other articles provided for the passengers.—One wooden mess bowl, one ditto platter, one mess bread basket, one tin quart-pot, two three-gallon hawse buckets.—For each mess of six passengers. 1863[see sense b below]. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 47 Quartpots are for muddier liquor than nectar. 1881A. C. Grant Bush Life in Queensland I. v. 43 One of the quart-pots..was boiling madly. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career i. 4, I refilled the quart-pot in which we had boiled our tea with water from the creek. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad iii. 20 We had boiled the quartpots at a waterhole a mile or so back and were continuing on our way. 1941Coast to Coast 155 He was a swaggie all right, with his roll of old blue blanket across his shoulders and his quart pot dangling from it.
b. attrib., as quart-pot tea, Austral. (see quot. 1885).
1863R. Henning Let. 29 June (1966) 131 We..then made a fire, boiled some ‘quart-pot tea’, and sat down..to enjoy our dinner. 1878Mrs. H. Jones Long Years in Australia 87 Taking a long draught of the quart-pot tea. 1885H. Finch-Hatton Advance Austral. 111 ‘Quart-pot tea’, as tea made in the Bush is always called... A tin quart of water is set down by the fire, and when it is boiling hard a handful of tea is thrown in. |