coal pot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ma looked up from fanning the coal pot in the outdoor kitchen, where she sat with Klenam.
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Togbe sat on his haunches by the fire, and I fetched the coal pot fan from the basket.
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The meal was our collective gift to each other because we didn’t have money to buy other things, but this year I’d used the skills Togbe taught me to make something for everyone: new coal pot fans for Ma, different-shaped baskets for Klenam and Mawuli, and—the thing I’d spent the most time on—an extra-large fish trap for Togbe.
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When early rains began to pitter down, and Ma and Klenam each grabbed a ring of the coal pot and rushed it carefully to the veranda, he talked about the never-ending circles raindrops made on water, and we knew we were about to revisit the boy by the river.
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It looked like a cross between a coal pot fan and a crude scrap of netting, but it was all I needed, because the fish came right into the shallows.
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