jam-pot

jam-pot (plural jam-pots)

1. Alternative form of jam pot.
   • 1824 September 30, Jeremy Quill, “The Hen-Pecked Author. From Ackerman’s Repository.”, in The Star, number 782, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alden Spooner, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 4:

     […] I found that my three quarters had got hold of the MS. and cut it up! Aye, cut it up, Mr. Editor, and before it was published (had she cut it up afterwards, it would have been but fair criticism, whether she had read it not,) and cut it up into what do you suppose? Into coverings for jam-pots! Heavens! my grand work on the liquidation of the national debt to be as a covering for jam-pots!

   • 1944 December 8, “Up-to-Data: Practical Home Hints for the Modern Woman”, in The Ramsbottom Observer, Ramsbottom, →OCLC, page 6:

     So why not ‘a nice bit of green’ inside? It will cheer you up no end as you work about the kitchen. You’re bound to have some old jam-pots, stone or glass. If you have any odds and ends of coloured paint in the house paint the jars with it, either in self colour, or a design on the plain jar.

   • 2015, Sulkhan Zhordania, “In the Beginning Was the Fist”, in The Asylum Seeker, Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, →ISBN, page 35:

     They could hardly see me behind an enormous bunch of lilacs. My dear cousin Naira, Granny Nadia and Auntie Rita. They kissed and embraced me and laughed and divided the bouquet up and put the biggest part into a vase and the smaller ones into jam-pots.