try pot

try pot

See also: trypot and try-pot

English

Try pots on display at the Southampton Historical Museum

Alternative forms

• trypot, try-pot

Etymology

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) +‎ pot.

Noun

try pot (plural try pots)

1. (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 2021, p. 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

large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber and to extract oil from penguins

Maori: taraipāta

Further reading

• try pot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia