Obs. Also blackpot, black pot. A beer-mug (cf. BLACK-JACK); a toper.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, v. 122. I’ll be Prince of Wales over all the blackpots in Oxford.
1636. Heywood, Love’s Mistr., II. Iugg, what’s shee but sister to a black-pot.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxii. A whole whiskin, or black pot of sufficient double ale.
