[f. as prec. + POT. (Cf. F. pot de chambre.)] A vessel used in a bedchamber for urine and slops. (In the crockery-trade, often euphemized as chamber.)
1570. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 348. Fyue chamber pottes of pouther vs.
1607. Shaks., Cor., II. i. 85. You make faces like Mummers, set vp the bloodie Flagge against all Patience, and in roaring for a Chamber-pot, dismisse the Controuersie bleeding, the more intangled by your hearing.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Iordan, a chamberpot.
1698. Christ Exalted, § 80. 63. Hath not the Potter power over the Clay, of the same lump to make a hundred Chamber-pots and but five drinking Vessels?
1776. Phil. Trans., LXVI. 583. Sitting on a chamber-pot or bed-pan, ans straining in the usual way, the urine had rushed out at the aperture per anum in a stream.
1850. W. Irving, Goldsmith, 114. My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favor of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.
