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.
were 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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The chaps were likely to think we were potting at them—out of a clear sky, and—er—they might have begun potting back at us in a minute or two, in their excitement.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
Once a few of us happened to be lying in front of a ridge we were holding, and at which the Boers were potting from another about 800 yards off.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by Ross, P. T.
