Etymology

try pot

Today it means: A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), from pinnipeds (such as walruses and seals), and (historically, to a lesser extent) from penguins. Full definition →

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The story

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + pot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.