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 Lang, Andrew
This did not perturb him, for he supposed that the Lord Proprietor was potting at a stray rabbit.
From Major Vigoureux by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
What a fool he was, potting at glow-worms like a madman!
From The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by De Maris, Walter
