Dictionary

paintpot en · NOUN

Etymology

From paint + pot.

Meanings

1. A pot for holding paint.
   • At the sight of Bradly up there, staring down at her, she seemed to get the shock of an unprecedented intrusion on her privacy too, and remained gaping up at him, brush in one hand and paint-pot in the other. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:
   • Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture. 1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository, page 80:
   • A fifth man is busied with paintpot and brush. He is kneeling on the ground, painting a strip of canvas […] 1961, Randolph Goodman, Drama on Stage, page 424:
2. (dated) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.
   • […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle. 2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390:

Forms

Deriveds

Indian paint pot · Indian paintpot