beanpot

noun

beanpot

noun

Etymology From bean + pot.

1

A pot for cooking or serving beans.

  • Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.1957, House and Garden, volume 111:
  • There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork.1982, Betty Jane Morison, Champagne and a Gardener:

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