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 (such as whales and dolphins), from pinnipeds (such as walruses and seals), and (historically, to a lesser extent) from penguins.

   Holonym: tryworks

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

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

   • 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

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

• Māori: taraipāta

Further reading

• try pot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Protty