2. Noun. An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom. ¹
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Definition of Firepot
1. a clay pot filled with burning items [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firepot
Literary usage of Firepot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The English patent shows two separate devices, one of a tapering firepot or ...
G, which may be so applied that it can be " The bottom of tbis firepot is an ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... the defendants' stove there I* no euch device and no such effects are produced.
There are no external downward flues »WAIL. separated from the firepot. ..."
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