2syllables
potting
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Definitions ofpotting
1verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
Example: "to pot a plant"
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
Example: "potted meat"
- To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- To be capable of being potted.
Example: "The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way."
- To shoot with a firearm.
- To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
- To secure; gain; win; bag.
- To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- To tipple; to drink.
- To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
1noun
- The placing of something in a pot.
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