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单词 lime-pot
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lime-potn.

Brit. /ˈlʌɪmpɒt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪmˌpɑt/
Etymology: < lime n.1
A pot to contain lime or birdlime; a vessel of lime to pour upon assailants in a fight (Historical); †a pot or furnace in which limestone is burnt; a lime-wash pot.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > lime-pot or tar-barrel
lime-pot14..
tar-barrelc1450
society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > lime-kilns
lime-kiln1296
lime-pot1596
pot kiln1599
flame-kiln1808
tunnel-kiln1828
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 703/5 Hoc viscerium, a lyme-pott.
1483 Cath. Angl. 217/1 A Lyme pott or brusche, viscarium, viminarium.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Boitis man, bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top.
1596 Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890) 160/1 Vastam caudam terre cum lie vorkhousis et lymepottis ad australem partem.
1692 in Rec. Convent. R. Burghs (1880) IV. 571 Item, a years rent of lim potts and grass at the east port 3 8 8.
1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour III. 489 Both fire-pots and lime-pots were employed at the siege of Harfleur in 1415.
1860 Ecclesiologist 21 218 A man armed with a fire-pot, or lime-pot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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