[f. LIME sb.1] A pot to contain lime or birdlime; a vessel of lime to pour upon assailants in a fight (Hist.); † a pot or furnace in which limestone is burnt; a lime-wash pot.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 703/5. Hoc viscerium, a lymepott.
1483. Cath. Angl., 217/1. A Lyme pott or brusche, viscarium, viminarium.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 41. Boitis man, bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top.
1596. Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890), 160/1. Vastam caudam terre cum lie vorkhousis et lymepottis ad australem partem.
1692. in Rec. Convent. R. Burghs (1880), IV. 571. Item, a years rent of lim potts and grass at the east port 3 8 8.
1860. J. Hewitt, Anc. Armour, III. 489. Both fire-pots and lime-pots were employed at the siege of Harfleur in 1415.
1860. Ecclesiologist, XXI. 218. A man armed with a fire-pot, or lime-pot.
