potclaw (potkla)

A hook hung in an open chimney to support a pot or kettle. See tram mel. pot-clep (pot'klep), n . Same as pot - claw . pot-companion (pot'kom-pan"yon), n. A com- rade in drinking; a boon companion: applied generally to habitual topers. One pot companion and his fashion I will describe, and make relation Of what my selfe have seene. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 59. For fuddling they shall make the best pot - companion in Switzerland knock under the table. Sir R. L'Estrange , tr. of Quevedo. ( Latham .) potato-vine (pō-tā ́tō-vin), n . The potato-plant, especially esp the part above ground. [U.S.] - Wild potato-vine. See Ipomæa and man - of - the -earth. pot-barley (pot'bär"li), n . See barley1 . pot-bellied (pot'bel"id), a. Having a promipote (pot), v.; pret. and pp. poted , ppr. poting . nent belly; abdominous. He appears to be near forty; a little pot - bellied and thick shouldered, otherwise no bad figure. potato-fingert (po-ta'to-fing"gėr), n . A long Gray, To Mason. ( Latham .) thick finger, like a sweet potato: used in a pot-belly (pot'bel"i), n. 1. A protuberant loose, contemptuous sense. It is otherwise explained as 'a provocative.' [Rare.] How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato finger , tickles these together! Shak ., T. and C., v. 2. 56. potato-fungus (pō-tā tō-fung"gus), n. tato-rot. See po belly.-2. A person having a protuberant belly. He will find himself a forked straddling animal, and a pot - belly . Arbuthnot and Pope . 3. The lake-trout, Salve lin us ( Cristivomer ) na maycush . [Lake Huron.] pot-boiler (pot'boiler), n . 1. A work of art or [ He keepes a startcht gate, weares a form all ruffe, A nosegay, set face, and a poted cuffe. Heywood, Troia Britannica (1609), p. 89. ( Hall i well .) II. in trans . To creep about listle ly or moodily; poke. potato-grant (pō-tāʼto-grant), n. A patch of land for growing vegetables, formerly gra by the owner to each of his slaves. Bartlett. [West Indies.] boiling" that is, for the sake of providing the nece aries of life. potato-hook (pō-tātō-hük), n. A hand-tool with bent fork-like tines, used for digging pot a- pot - boilers has injured the development of a delicate feel- IMG:content-0736.png:[blocks in formation] potato-oat (po-tā tō-ōt), п. A variety of the common oat. See oat, 1 ( a ). potato-oil (pō-tāʼtō-oil), п. Same as oil of po tatoes (which see, under potato ). potato-onion (pō-tāʼtō-un"yon), n. See Egyp tian onion, under onion. potato-pen (pō-tā'tō-pen), n. Naut., a wooden compartment or pen on deck, built with a view to thorough ventilation, for keeping potatoes and other vegetables during a voyage. potato-planter (pō-tā'tō-plan"tėr), n. plement for planting seed-potatoes and covering them with soil. A planting-share plows a furrow, An im into which the potatoes are dropped by an automatic device, and a following covering-share turns the soil over them. potator (po-tāʼtor), n. [=OF. potateur = It. po tatore, Barnabee, the illustrious potator , saw there the most unbecoming sight that he met with in all his travels. Southey , The Doctor, xliv. ( Davies .) potato-rot (po-tā tō-rot), n. A very destructive disease of the potato, caused by a parasitie fungus, Phytophthora infestans. It seems to ear have been introduced from South America, about the year 1840, and since that time has been the cause of very serious lo es, sometimes involving almost the entire crop. The fungus attacks the stem and leaves as well as the tubers, and when confined to the leaves and stem is usually called potato-blight. On the leaves it first appears as pale-yellowish spots, which soon turn brown and finally black, indicating the total destruction of the ti ues. On the tubers the parasite attains a considerable growth within the ti ues before there is any external manifestation of its presence. After a time depre ed spots appear, and the skin covering these dies and becomes discolored. Under IMG:content-0737.png:[blocks in formation] Murillo executed a few portraits about the time he was painting pot - boilers for sale at fairs and to sea-captains. The American , XIV. 301 . 2. A housekeeper. Compare pot - waller, pot walloper. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] pot-boiling (pot'boi"ling), n. The practice of producing pot-boilers; working for a living rather than for love of art. Most earnestly is it to be hoped that a writer who has the faculty displayed in this book will not, like so many of his contemporaries, di ipate it in pot - boiling on a colo al scale. The Academy, July 20, 1889, p. 34. pot - boy (pot'boi), n. A boy or young man who has the charge of beer-pots. (a) An attendant on a bar; a young man who a ists the barmaid in serving customers with porter, ale, or beer. ( b ) One who carries beer or ale in pots to customers, or for sale to pa ers-by. [Eng.] I could get a pot - boy's place again, but I'm not so strong as I were, and it's slavish work in the place I could get. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 17.