单词 | for the pot |
释义 | > as lemmasfor the pot b. spec. A vessel of this kind (now usually one of metal with a handle or handles) used in cooking. Hence: such a vessel and its contents. Also allusively: cooking, food, as for the pot. Also figurative.Frequently in plural in collocation with pans, as pots and pans. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] pot?c1225 cooking1596 coction1605 cocture1662 concoction1680 kitchening1842 slow cooking1851 pancake-making1904 cook-up1911 pot wrestling1914 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] pot?c1225 flesh-kit1575 plasma1616 vessel1719 pot-au-feu1792 cookpot1835 cooker1849 hook-pot1867 canaree1895 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 272 Þe wombe pot [Fr. li pot de uostre uentre, L. olla ventris] þe walleð ofmetes & mare ofdrunh. c1330 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 34 (MED) Deþ..has..put þe pouer to þe pot & ouer him yknett his knott Vnder his clay kist. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 951 Certes, whan the pot [v.r. potte] boyleth strongly, the beste remedie is to withdrawe the fyr. c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 135 (MED) Wiþinne þe pot of hure brenninge herte, seþeþ hem alle togedere wiþ fuyr of sorew and penaunce. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 16 Put alle in þe pot with grythe. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xviii. sig. Jviiv Kylling of dere with bowes..serueth well for the potte (as is the commune saynge). 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health lxiii. 68 An herbe sometime vsed in medicine, but most commonly for the pot. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cix, in Poems (1878) III. 164 Gant let Glocester's pott Boyle only over, though his were as Hott. 1667 Earl Tweeddale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) II. 45 This was to me lik the spoonful that spoils the pot. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 126 I had not so much as a Pot to boil any Thing, except a great Kettle. 1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1815) IV. 129 Henry the Fourth [of France] wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every peasant. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vi. 462 An ever-boiling pot of mutiny. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 33 Boiled meats which involve an apparatus of pots and pans. 1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood ii. 60 He gladly added to his burden a big cast-iron stove with pots and pans, provisions [etc.]. 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West vi. 162 Poached game is never sold, it goes into the pot. 1987 E. Feinstein Captive Lion iv. 83 There in her kitchen, surrounded by pots and pans, they became friends. < as lemmas |
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