<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.</li><li>Such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.</li><li>The amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.</li><li>A flowerpot.</li><li>A container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.</li><li>Liquor or other drink.</li><li>A cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire.</li><li>A chamber pot.</li><li>Metallurgy. A vessel for melting metal; melting pot.</li><li>An electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.</li><li>British. A chimney pot.</li><li>Dialect. A basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like; a pannier.</li><li>Slang. A large sum of money.</li><li>All the money bet at a single time; pool.</li><li>British Slang. (In horse racing) the favorite.</li><li>A potshot.</li><li>A liquid measure, usually equal to a pint or quart.</li><li>Armor. An open, broad-brimmed helmet of the 17th century.</li><li>Any open helmet.</li><li>Slang. A potbelly.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To put into a pot.</li><li>To preserve (food) in a pot.</li><li>To cook in a pot.</li><li>To transplant into a pot: We must pot the petunias.</li><li>Hunting. To shoot (game birds) on the ground or water, or (game animals) at rest, instead of in flight or running: He can't even pot a sitting duck.</li><li>To shoot for food, not for sport.</li><li>Informal. To capture, secure, or win.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) Informal. To take a potshot; shoot.</li></ul>