try pot
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + pot.
Noun[edit]
- (nautical) A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans, pinnipeds and also to extract oil from penguins.
- 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183:
- Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil.
Translations[edit]
large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber and to extract oil from penguins
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