paint pot
Americannoun
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Also paintpot a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied.
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Geology. a spring or pit filled with boiling colored mud.
Etymology
Origin of paint pot
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Suddenly, out comes a paint pot and brush and Dmitry adds more names.
From BBC • May 19, 2022
In 1875, one Thomas Cusack, a youth in his teens, started a business with only a paint pot and brush and a remarkable personality as assets.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his pocket he took the large glass paperweight, its insides a multitude of bright colors, along with the paint pot, and the paintbrush.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
If you marry you'll have to paint pot boilers, and then what becomes of your art?
From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Price, Lucien
In some mysterious way the agent seemed to know every time he brought out the paint pot, and he was no longer the pleasant-voiced individual who drove the calico ponies.
From Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin
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