try pot

plural try pots · alternative trypot · alternative try-pot

1. nauticalA 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.

   Holonym: tryworks

   2 more examples

   From the big try-pot the oil automatically flowed over a lip into a smaller pot[.]

   1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 41

   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.

   2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183