cooking-pot

A form of cooking pot — any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food

Meanings

nouncooking-pot (plural cooking-pots)

plural cooking-pots

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of cooking pot.

    When a hen no longer lays and a cock is no longer capable of sexual activity, their value is reduced to half a bushel, as they are fit only for the cooking-pot.

    1997, Fergus Kelly, “Hens”, in Early Irish Farming: A Study Based Mainly on the Law-Texts of the 7th and 8th Centuries ad […] (Early Irish Law Series; 4), Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 2000, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 3 (Livestock), page 102
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