paint pot

noun

Also paint·pot. a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied.
Geology. a spring or pit filled with boiling colored mud.

Compare mud pot.

Origin of paint pot

First recorded in 1830–40

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Not to give up his sweetheart for the sake of a paint-pot, I hope?
The Tragic Muse
Henry James
Their hands were constantly in the tar-bucket and paint-pot.
The Three Midshipmen
W.H.G. Kingston
He licked his dry lips, picked up the paint-pot, and threw it into the sea.
The Angel of Terror
Edgar Wallace
I had even to hide the little dabs of mud I took from a paint-pot.
A Summer's Outing
Carter H. Harrison
Wilbur was below tinkering with his paint-pot about the cabin.
Moran of the Lady Letty
Frank Norris