Wine-pot

[f. WINE sb.¹ + POT sb.¹ Cf. ON. vínpottr.] A ‘pot’ or flagon for holding wine.

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14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 619/29. Viniferum, a wynpot.

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c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 108. Why þer stondyth a wyne-potte and a lyly bytwyx our lady and Gabyrell at hur salutacyon.

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1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 81. By the olde order it is vnlawfull to bryng winepots to the borde.

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1585. Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 235/1. Epichysis,… a wine pot or wine vessel.

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1831. Scott, Cast. Dang., v. When the wine-pot … hath brought thee on occasion into something of a scrape.

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1848. Clough, Amours de Voy., I. 39. Rome … is … Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

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b. attrib.: † wine-pot herb, the foxglove.

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1552. Huloet, Wyne pot herb, other do call it oure ladies gloues, asdrabacca.

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