pot
noun
a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
was potting
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past progressiveof pot.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"That was a lesson. If I go back in time I couldn't really doing anything about it. But he can't keep that up, it's impossible. He was potting everything."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2015
Like Mr. Jingle, in “Pickwick,” he “banged the field-piece, twanged the lyre,” and was potting at the foes of the republic with a double-barrelled gun, when he was not composing plays, romances, memoirs, criticisms.
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
What a fool he was, potting at glow-worms like a madman!
From The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Walter De Maris
This did not perturb him, for he supposed that the Lord Proprietor was potting at a stray rabbit.
From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
