try pot
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editlarge pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber and to extract oil from penguins
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