1722 (1891) 29 He comes to an untimely end, having been drowned in a ‘moss-pot’.
1845 E. Robinson II. xl. 191 What hath any of us done, that grace should come and lug us out of the moss~pot into which we have strayed of our own folly?
1932 J. White iii Of course, we all ken that Betsy's an auld randy an' should be ducked in a moss-pot.