try pot
nounEtymology From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + pot.
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Nautical, Transport 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
- 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.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183: