try pot

See also: trypot and try-pot

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Etymology

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) +‎ pot.

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try pot (plural try pots)

  1. (nautical) A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans, pinnipeds and also to extract oil from penguins.
    • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183:
      Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil.

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