lobster pot

plural lobster pots · alternative lobsterpot

1. A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.

   Synonyms: lobster trap

2. Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”).

   Craftsmen churned out cheap helmets – lobster pots with hammered steel neckguards rather than the fancy segmented type the Roundheads wore. Plain morions with riveted rims, none of your apprentice piece Spanish combs.

   2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army, Canelo, →ISBN

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   As pikemen were required to engage the enemy closely, they frequently wore steel helmets and a cuirass that is both armored breast and back plates. The helmets, or pots or lobster pots, were slightly angular round helmet[s] with […]

   2004, Stephen C. Manganiello, The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 21

   Synonyms: lobster-tailed pot

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in.

   ... should have been tucked behind his driver's license—and Larry saw the photograph—Marie and Sean in the kitchen wearing lobster pots for helmets and wielding frying pans for rapiers—but his driver's license appeared to be missing.

   2015, Joshua Corin, Cost of Life: A Xanadu Marx Thriller, Alibi, →ISBN