pot

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various usually domestic containers made of pottery, metal, or glass, as.
• noun A round, fairly deep cooking vessel with a handle and often a lid.
• noun A short round container for storing or serving food.
• noun A coffeepot.
• noun A teapot.
• noun Such a container and its contents.
• noun A potful.
• noun A large drinking cup; a tankard.
• noun A drink of liquor contained in such a cup.
• noun An artistic or decorative ceramic vessel of any shape.
• noun A flowerpot.
• noun Something, such as a chimney pot or chamber pot, that resembles a round cooking vessel in appearance or function.
• noun A trap for eels, other fish, or crustaceans, typically consisting of a wicker or wire basket or cage.
• noun The total amount staked by all the players in one hand in cards.
• noun The area on a card table where stakes are placed.
• noun A shot in billiards or related games intended to send a ball into a pocket.
• noun Informal A common fund to which members of a group contribute.
• noun Informal A large amount.
• noun Informal A potshot.
• noun Informal A potbelly.
• noun Informal A potty or toilet.
• intransitive verb To place or plant in a pot.
• intransitive verb To preserve (food) in a pot.
• intransitive verb To cook in a pot.
• intransitive verb To shoot (game) for food rather than for sport.
• intransitive verb Informal To shoot with a potshot.
• intransitive verb Informal To win or capture; bag.
• intransitive verb Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket.
• intransitive verb Informal To take a potshot.
• intransitive verb To make or shape objects from clay, as on a potter's wheel.
• noun Marijuana.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A pit; a hole; especially, a deep hole scooped out by the eddies of a river.
• noun A vessel of earth, iron, brass, or other metal, usually of circular section and in shape rather deep than broad, employed for domestic and other purposes.
• noun An earthen vessel, often for holding something distinctively specified; a jar or jug: as, a flower-pot; a cream-pot.
• noun A drinking-vessel; a vessel containing a specified quantity of liquor, usually a quart or a pint; a mug.
• noun The contents of a pot; that which is cooked in a pot; specifically, the quantity contained in a drinking-pot, generally a quart (in Guernsey and Jersey, about 2 quarts). A pot of butter was by statutes of Charles II. made 14 pounds.
• noun Stoneware: a trade-term.
• noun In sugar manufacturing, an earthen mold used in refining; also, a perforated cask in which sugar is placed for drainage of the molasses.
• noun In founding, a crucible.
• noun In glass manufacturing, the crucible in which the frit is melted. Those used for glass of fine quality, such as flint-glass, are closed to guard against impurities.
• noun The metal or earthenware top of a chimney; a chimney-pot.
• noun A size of writing-paper whose original water-mark is said to have been a pot. The smallest sheets measure 15½ x 12½ inches. Also spelled pott.
• noun In fishing: The circular inclosed part of a pound-net, otherwise called the bowl, pound, or crib.
• noun A hollow vessel for trapping fish; a lobster-pot.
• noun In card-playing: The aggregate stakes, generally placed together in the center of the table; the pool.
• noun In faro, the name given to the six-, seven-, and eight-spots in the lay-out.