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.
2.
such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.
3.
the amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.
4.
a flowerpot.
5.
a container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.
6.
liquor or other drink.
7.
a cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire. Compare lobster pot.
8.
a chamber pot.
9.
Metallurgy.
a.
a vessel for melting metal; melting pot.
b.
an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
The securities from a new issue that are returned to the lead underwriter by syndicate members for sale to institutional investors. See also pot is clean.