paintpot
English
Etymology
paint + pot
Noun
paintpot (plural paintpots)
- A pot for holding paint.
- 1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository (page 80)
- Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.
- 1961, Randolph Goodman, Drama on Stage (page 424)
- A fifth man is busied with paintpot and brush. He is kneeling on the ground, painting a strip of canvas […]
- 1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository (page 80)
- (dated, television) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.
- 2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film (page 390)
- […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.
- 2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film (page 390)
Alternative forms
- paint pot, paint-pot
References
- (in television): 1976, Brian Armstrong, The Glossary of TV Terms (page 68)