sackpot (sak pot)

A small ve el like a jug or pitcher, with a globular body, made of yellowish earthenware, and covered with a white stanniferous glaze. These pots often bear an inscribed word, as "sack," "claret," or "whit" (for white wine), and sometimes are dated, but not later than the seventeenth century. They are rarely more than 8 inches high, and were probably used for drawing wine direct from the cask. sack-race (sak'rās), n. A race in which the legs of the contestants are incased in sacks gathered at the top and tied around the body. sack-tree (sak'trē), n. An East Indian tree, Antiar is toxic aria, specifically identical with the upas-tree, though formerly separated and known as A. innoxia, A. saccidora, etc. Lengths of its bark after soaking and beating are turned inside out without splitting, and used as a sack, a section of wood being left as a bottom.